Re: [Xen-users] virsh -c xen:/// list: = Connection refused, Set up Xen 3.4.2 & Libvirt 0.6.1 on top of Ubuntu 9.04 Server

[Gerry Reno <greno@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 02:40:53PM -0500, Gerry Reno wrote:
>   
> > Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> >     
> > > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 02:12:42PM -0500, Gerry Reno wrote:
> > >  
> > >       
> > > > Boris Derzhavets wrote:
> > > >    
> > > >         
> > > > >   That was due to intend  to apply MRJ's ext4 patch for pygrub ...
> > > > >      
> > > > >           
> > > > I had major problems using pygrub with karmic guests.  Karmic seems to 
> > > > not mind putting /boot into a logical(extended) partition but this is 
> > > > totally useless for pygrub.  Also pygrub is not secure at all.  So I 
> > > > started using pv-grub and everything just works - no problems at all and 
> > > > it's secure.
> > > >    
> > > >         
> > > Note that pv-grub currently doesn't have support for BZIP2 or LZMA
> > > compressed kernels.
> > >
> > > I think it only supports GZIP compressed kernels.
> > >
> > > -- Pasi
> > >
> > >
> > >  
> > >       
> > My para-virt guest kernels are embedded and are bzImage type and this 
> > works fine.
> >     
> bzImage is the type, not the compression. I bet your bzImage kernels are
> GZIP compressed.
>
> -- Pasi
>
>
>   
Yes, my kernels are gzip compressed:
CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP=y

So that's good to know about pv-grub.  Hopefully it will grow ability to 
handle bzip and lzma.
-Gerry


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