RE: Building domains as a lesser user (was Re: [Xen-devel] boot loaders for domain != 0)

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I've been thinking about this and it seems to get worse and worse the 
> more I think about it.  Pushing loading off to domU isn't much better 
> because you still need to load a boot loader of some sort.  At what 
> point do we then have to implement support for loading the 
> boot loader 
> from domU's device (in order to support exotic boot scenarios like 
> booting from a CD, BOOTP, etc.).

One fairly simple option is to use Linux as a domU boot loader. Boot
with an intrd, 
mount the specified filesystem, read off grub.conf, display a menu over
the xencons, kexec the appropriate kernel.

I'd have to think through whether kexec would need modifications, but I
believe it uses the same 32 bit kernel entry point that xen/linux does
(no grubby 16bit nastiness). 

This sounds quite a good soloution.

Ian


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