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From: "Dan Magenheimer" <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Subject: RE: PVM guests and p[yv]grub and the extra= parameter
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 11:42:43 -0600
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> That however doesn't look very appealing to me, on
> the principles.

I agree that would be a bit of a hack.

> Instead, would for instance being able to set the menu
> entry to be activated by default be ok?

That would be nice too, but doesn't replace the niceness
of being able to alter the booting behavior of a pv guest
without ever mucking with grub interactive edits or grub
configuration files.

Thanks,
Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Samuel Thibault [mailto:samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 11:30 AM
> To: Dan Magenheimer
> Cc: Xen-Devel (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] PVM guests and p[yv]grub and the extra=3D
> parameter
> =

> =

> Dan Magenheimer, le Wed 02 Jul 2008 11:17:45 -0600, a =E9crit :
> > At Xen Summit, Ian's presentation touched on PVGrub which is
> > intended to be a more secure replacement for PyGrub.
> >
> > I've noticed that PyGrub doesn't honor the extra=3D parameter
> > in a VM config file (which adds additional kernel command line
> > parameters, e.g. extra=3D1 will boot single-user mode).
> >
> > Will PVGrub?
> =

> Mmm, actually in PVGrub extra is used to point to the =

> menu.lst file that
> should be loaded.  It could however append the remainder of =

> extra to the
> kernel command line.  That however doesn't look very =

> appealing to me, on
> the principles.  Instead, would for instance being able to =

> set the menu
> entry to be activated by default be ok?
> =

> Samuel
>