Re: [Xen-devel] ext4 support on pvgrub

To:	M A Young <m.a.young@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	Re: [Xen-devel] ext4 support on pvgrub
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Date:	Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:13:22 -0700
Cc:	xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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 On 10/07/2010 02:48 PM, M A Young wrote:
> I have this working on Fedora. It turned out to be very easy to add
> this as I simply took the grub-ext4-support.patch from the Fedora grub
> package and put it in xen-4.0.1/stubdom/grub.patches/ . Using pvgrub
> (without a vif on the virtual machine as I was having problems if I
> did give it a network interface) I could read and boot from ext4
> partition with this patch but not without it.
>
> Is this a good way to add this feature to xen more generally?

Sounds like it just needs to be committed.  Post the patch?

    J

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