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From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: PVM guests and p[yv]grub and the extra= parameter
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:28:04 +0100
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Hello,

Dan Magenheimer, le Wed 02 Jul 2008 11:42:43 -0600, a =E9crit :
> > That however doesn't look very appealing to me, on
> > the principles.
>=20
> I agree that would be a bit of a hack.
>=20
> > Instead, would for instance being able to set the menu
> > entry to be activated by default be ok?
>=20
> 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.

Another possibility would be to provide the menu.lst as a ramdisk.  We
keep the confinment of grub inside the domain, but still provide full
configurability.

Samuel