Re: [Xen-devel] [Xen-users] pv-grub in xen 4.7, ok with kernel 3.x, but fails with 4.x

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 12:13:00PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 9:04 PM, Sarah Newman <srn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 09/10/2016 07:58 AM, Mark Pryor wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> In a xen 4.7 source build, pv-grub works with domU kernel 3.x.x, but not 
> >> with 4.x.x. So, the recent fc24, xenial, and debian sid/stretch can't use
> >> pv-grub.
> >
> > While this should be fixed, in the meantime can you use an older pv-grub 
> > build? I don't know of a reason why you have to use the version of pv-grub
> > that was built along with the rest of xen.
> 
> Wei, doesn't osstest test pv-grub? Do we not have any tests of the
> in-tree pv-grub booting on new versions of Linux?
> 

First question, yes. Second question, no, we don't boot newer versions
of Linux.

Wei.

>  -George

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