From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Katz Subject: Re: Building domains as a lesser user (was Re: [Xen-devel] bootloaders for domain != 0) Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 08:21:30 -0500 Message-ID: <1107523290.7797.8.camel@bree.local.net> References: <42034D39.5030409@shadowen.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <42034D39.5030409@shadowen.org> Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Andy Whitcroft Cc: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 10:23 +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > Ian Pratt wrote: > >>On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 02:30 +0000, Ian Pratt wrote: > >> > >>>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 > > Well I don't think it even being grub compatible is necessary. I'd say > it looking a little like lilo, yaboot and the like would do just fine. I'd argue you want it to look like the "native" boot loader for the architecture. If it doesn't, then you have to do more special casing to handling updating the guest's boot loader config. As well as more special casing of users' brains telling their hands what to type ;-) Jeremy ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl