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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Don't attach needless options when launch pygrub

To: Zhigang Wang <zhigang.x.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Don't attach needless options when launch pygrub
From: Yu Zhiguo <yuzg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:03:19 +0800
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Hi,

Zhigang Wang wrote:
>>
>> It looks like --ramdisk (and the associated plumbing through xend) may
>> in fact be useless at this time. I'd say it is harmless to plumb it
>> through for consistency though -- perhaps in the future pygrub (or
>> another bootloader) might want to use it.
>>
> 
> Yes. Please don't remove --kernel/--ramdisk: pygrub is not the only pv guest
> bootloader.
> 
> Here is a pv guest boot loader we are using which grab vmlinuz/initrd from
> network. It uses --kernle/--ramdisk parameters.
> 
 I made a mistake here, sorry for that.
 I committed another patch and just ignore the kernel path check of Dom0
in 'xm create' when use bootloader, it works well.

-- 
Regards
Yu Zhiguo

> Thanks,
> 
> Zhigang


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