Re: [Xen-users] XenU installs

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 06:38:34PM +0100, Mark Williamson wrote:
> It'd be kinda nice if there were a standardised spec for "how to boot an ISO 
> in a paravirt VM".  This would require some kind of agreement between the 
> distributors to do things in a uniform way, but it would move us closer to 
> a "just works" type setup - surely a good thing.  It seems relatively 
> unfortunate for the install procedure for each paravirt guest to be slightly 
> different so that the user or tools has to understand those differences.

Paravirt-ops may (eventually) help here because removing the need for a
small xen kernel. Our goal in Fedora is to continue working to make paravirt
boot & install process be more closely aligned to fullyvirt & baremetal. 
This is why we do Fedora guest installs by booting anaconda (+ optional
kickstart) instead of chroot installs, and why we default to using pygrub
and keeping kernels inside the guest image, etc. All the tools already
expect things to work in this way with bare metal & fullvirt, so having
paravirt be different is just complicating things. PXE boot of paravirt
is another thing we'd like to have too...
 
Dan.
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