RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Guest boot loader support [1/2]

[Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 18:54 +0100, Ian Pratt wrote:
>  > Thanks for the patch. There are some issues that need sorting 
> > out before we can apply it. Headlines here, some more detail 
> > in-line below.
> > 
> > - the code only supports booting with the bootloader when 
> > called from xm,
> >    since xm is running the loader. For general use it needs 
> > to support configuring
> >    the bootloader in the domain config and have xend run it.
> 
> Yep, it would be much better if we could hide this all in xend. Ideally,
> it should be possible to start a domain, then connect to its console
> within the bootloader's timeout and be able to interact with it.

If the console code is changing around, though, hooking up to the
current stuff might be more trouble than its worth.  Would be better in
the long run, though.
 
> > - need to be able to configure the kernel to boot in the domain config
> >    when not using a console.
> 
> This would certainly be nice.

Already there, just change your default in the config.

> > - it would be better to be able to remove the assumption that 
> > the first
> >    device is the disk to boot from
> 
> I could live with this. Crap PC BIOSes have conditioned everyone to
> expect oddities like this :-)

Since we're not on real hardware, we should be able to do better ;)  But
I'm of the opinion that incremental steps are the way to go.

Jeremy


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