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Re: [Xen-users] XenU boot loader?
| To: | Paul Jakma <paul@xxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [Xen-users] XenU boot loader? |
| From: | Thomas Ronner <thomas@xxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Sat, 13 Aug 2005 15:41:53 +0200 |
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Hello Paul, On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 13:48 +0100, Paul Jakma wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering is there any kind of bootloader for XenU? > > Synchronising kernel bits between that which is configured for a > particular guest on xen0 and the guest itself is tedious and > error-prone. > > It'd be handy if there was some kind of 2stage boot process so as > reduce this inter-dependence. > > It's particularly problematic with Linux guests, which typically use > lots of modules. Misconfiguration, especially where the guest is > missing the modules, can result in things like firewalling on a guest > failing to start, etc. I worked around this issue by compiling everything statically into the domU kernel, having no modules in the domU filesystem at all. It works flawlessly as far as I can see. > regards, Greetings, Thomas _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users |
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