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Re: [Xen-devel] /etc/grub.d/09-xen for generating grub.cfg for	hyperviso 
| Perhaps it goes without saying, but I don't think my suggestion for a 
xen in the image name check will be an accurate solution for someone 
that does not roll their own kernels.  I always know that my kernels 
have xen in the name when they are pvops/dom0 capable and sxen when they 
are Xenlinux.  Also, technically, for Xenlinux kernels, grub should not 
be generating bare metal boot entries. 
If anything, this could also be used as a basis for a script that 
generates an initial 40_custom file.  That can then be hand edited 
before running update-grub. 
Bruce Edge wrote:
 Good points all. Will incorporate, retest and repost the resultant 
script.
Thanks
-Bruce
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Richie <listmail@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
<mailto:listmail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: 
    I like the idea myself and I haven't seen anything in the wiki's
    other than manual creation steps.
    Just an opinion here, but why not use "dummy=dummy" as opposed to
    first parameter duplication?  My understanding is that dummy is
    used to avoid this same bug.  Either way we it avoids having to
    hardcode root= into the kernel cmdline .config parameter :)  I
    don't know if parameter duplication would break things when the
    bug is fixed or not, but the dummy parameter shouldn't.  I also
    think it might be viewed as something more familiar, perhaps self
    explanatory, whereas the parameter duplication may cause confusion.
    I skimmed the code and have not tested it.  I don't see that it is
    specifically trying to ensure that the kernel is Xenlinux or
    pvops...  Not that I know of a proper way to do such or if its
    even pratical.  Aren't most kernels now pvops (thus bootable under
    xen) but not necessarily dom0 capable?  I think a spin on this
    would be if one wanted to limit the Xen entries to kernels with
    "xen" (ie. --append-to-version) in the name.  Perhaps the code
    would change as follows?
    <snip>
    list=`for i in /boot/vmlinu[xz]-*xen* /vmlinu[xz]-*xen* ; do
          if grub_file_is_not_garbage "$i" ; then echo -n "$i " ; fi
        done`
    <snip>
    Bruce Edge wrote:
        If this has already been done, please forgive me. However, if
        not, I'd like to submit this as a mechanism for generating a
        bootable grub2 stanza for hypervisors.
        As the /etc/grub.d/* files rely on defaults in
        /etc/default/grub, I added the following Xen specific variable:
        GRUB_CMDLINE_XEN_DEFAULT="console=com1 115200,8n1
        dom0_mem=512M dom0_max_vcpus=1 dom0_vcpus_pin=true
        iommu=1,passthrough,no-intremap loglvl=all loglvl_guest=all
        loglevl=10 debug acpi=force apic=on apic_verbosity=verbose
        numa=on"
        The script itself is a hacked version of the10-linux that
        comes with grub2. This is 09-xen so it places it's boot
        entries ahead of the non-xen entries.
        The resulting grub.cfg entry looks like:
        ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/09_xen ###
         insmod lvm
         set root=(system-dom0_0)
        menuentry "Xen osa-dom0 6.0.13-05, linux 2.6.32.12" {
               multiboot /boot/xen.gz /boot/xen.gz console=com1
        115200,8n1 dom0_mem=512M dom0_max_vcpus=1 dom0_vcpus_pin=true
        iommu=1,passthrough,no-intremap loglvl=all loglvl_guest=all
        loglevl=10 debug acpi=force apic=on apic_verbosity=verbose numa=on
               module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.12 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.12
        root=UUID=a3764d7d-6292-4f08-8ece-480e54c77229  ro
        earlyprintk=xen loglevel=10 debug acpi=force console=hvc0,115200n8
               module /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32.12
        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32.12
        }
        ### END /etc/grub.d/09_xen ###
        Note the duplication of the first params. I believe there's a
        bug that drops the 1st param so this could be changed later.
        #! /bin/sh -e
        prefix=/usr
        exec_prefix=${prefix}
        libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
        . ${libdir}/grub/update-grub_lib
        if [ "x${GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR}" = "x" ] ; then
         OS=GNU/Linux
        else
         OS="${GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR}"
        fi
        # Source grub defaults
        . /etc/default/grub
        # loop-AES arranges things so that /dev/loop/X can be our root
        device, but
        # the initrds that Linux uses don't like that.
        case ${GRUB_DEVICE} in
         /dev/loop/*|/dev/loop[0-9])
           GRUB_DEVICE=`losetup ${GRUB_DEVICE} | sed -e
        "s/^[^(]*(\([^)]\+\)).*/\1/"`
         ;;
        esac
        if [ "x${GRUB_DEVICE_UUID}" = "x" ] || [
        "x${GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID}" = "xtrue" ] \
           || ! test -e "/dev/disk/by-uuid/${GRUB_DEVICE_UUID}" ; then
         LINUX_ROOT_DEVICE=${GRUB_DEVICE}
        else
         LINUX_ROOT_DEVICE=UUID=${GRUB_DEVICE_UUID}
        fi
        test_gt ()
        {
         local a=`echo $1 | sed -e
        "s,.*/vmlinu[zx]-,,g;s/[._-]\(pre\|rc\|test\|git\|old\)/~\1/g"`
         local b=`echo $2 | sed -e
        "s,.*/vmlinu[zx]-,,g;s/[._-]\(pre\|rc\|test\|git\|old\)/~\1/g"`
         if [ "x$b" = "x" ] ; then
           return 0
         fi
         dpkg --compare-versions "$a" gt "$b"
         return $?
        }
        find_latest ()
        {
         local a=""
         for i in $@ ; do
           if test_gt "$i" "$a" ; then
             a="$i"
           fi
         done
         echo "$a"
        }
        list=`for i in /boot/vmlinu[xz]-* /vmlinu[xz]-* ; do
               if grub_file_is_not_garbage "$i" ; then echo -n "$i " ; fi
             done`
        while [ "x$list" != "x" ] ; do
         linux=`find_latest $list`
         echo "Found linux image: $linux" >&2
         basename=`basename $linux`
         dirname=`dirname $linux`
         rel_dirname=`make_system_path_relative_to_its_root $dirname`
         version=`echo $basename | sed -e "s,^[^0-9]*-,,g"`
         alt_version=`echo $version | sed -e "s,\.old$,,g"`
         linux_root_device_thisversion="${LINUX_ROOT_DEVICE}"
         initrd=
         for i in "initrd.img-${version}" "initrd-${version}.img" \
                  "initrd.img-${alt_version}"
        "initrd-${alt_version}.img"; do
           if test -e "${dirname}/${i}" ; then
             initrd="$i"
             break
           fi
         done
         if test -n "${initrd}" ; then
           echo "Found initrd image: ${dirname}/${initrd}" >&2
         else
           # "UUID=" magic is parsed by initrds.  Since there's no
        initrd, it can't work here.
           linux_root_device_thisversion=${GRUB_DEVICE}
         fi
         cat << EOF
         insmod lvm
         set root=(system-dom0_0)
        menuentry "Xen ${OS}, linux ${version}" {
               multiboot /boot/xen.gz /boot/xen.gz
        $GRUB_CMDLINE_XEN_DEFAULT
               module ${rel_dirname}/${basename}
        ${rel_dirname}/${basename}
        root=${linux_root_device_thisversion} $GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT
        EOF
         if test -n "${initrd}" ; then
           cat << EOF
               module ${rel_dirname}/${initrd} ${rel_dirname}/${initrd}
        EOF
         fi
         cat << EOF
        }
        EOF
         list=`echo $list | tr ' ' '\n' | grep -vx $linux | tr '\n' ' '`
        done
        -Bruce
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