From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Samuel Thibault Subject: Re: PV-Grub and PXE Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:13:43 -0400 Message-ID: <20090716021343.GB10581@const> References: <7e9718f20907150839h1e194bc0wd3741c66824727a1@mail.gmail.com> <20090715173604.GE4903@const.linuxsymposium.org> <7e9718f20907151133r3469f3cjde86cd45f4fb65fe@mail.gmail.com> <20090715223331.GA5075@const> <7e9718f20907151852r210ef8cbs180cd5b5b7947da6@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7e9718f20907151852r210ef8cbs180cd5b5b7947da6@mail.gmail.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Steven Maresca Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Steven Maresca, le Wed 15 Jul 2009 21:52:40 -0400, a =E9crit : > For PV, we can cheat and skip most of that pain. In my mind - and as > you suggested - that means just parsing PXE configurations. >=20 > For the most basic case, all we need is: > 1) access to the network device > 2) ability to pull a lease from dhcp (with next-server and filename opt= ions set) > 3) tftp to $next-server to grab not the pxelinux.0 binary (or its > equivalent) but the configuration alone > 4) mechanism for presenting the configuration and emulating the (text) = menu > 5) acting upon the choice Yes, that's the kind of things I was thinking about. > Assumption: no more graphical menu is employed. Not necessarily, grub's graphical menu is just a graphical rendering of the text menu, it's basically the same content. > Please note: I'm not necessarily advocating that pv-grub should be > bent and twisted to this task, though that was the topic that led us > to this discussion. I think it could still be done that way: there could be a pxelinux.cfg to menu.lst converter and pv-grub can be fed with it. Samuel