From: Jacob Gorm Hansen <jacobg@diku.dk>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Guest boot loader support
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:39:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <426EA6FF.7020809@diku.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1114546895.6224.6.camel@localhost>
Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 15:11, Jacob Gorm Hansen wrote:
>
>>Jeremy Katz wrote:
>>
>>>Attached is an updated version of the patch to add boot loader support
>>>for guest domains.
>>
>>In relation to this, did anyone consider porting Grub to run inside a domU?
>
>
> While it seems appealing, a large amount of the grub code is device
> drivers, real mode boot strapping code, etc.
The interesting things you would get from Grub would be the
filesystem-decoding stuff, the elf decoder, the two-stage loader, and
the nice and well-tested config-file parsing, in a format that lots of
users already understand. Tftp and bootp/dhcp support could also be nice
in some scenarios.
And by having the bootloader in the domU you would get stronger security
as well.
Jacob
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-26 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-25 22:50 [PATCH] Guest boot loader support Jeremy Katz
2005-04-26 9:32 ` aq
2005-04-26 9:54 ` aq
2005-04-26 17:01 ` Jeremy Katz
2005-04-26 19:37 ` aq
2005-04-26 19:48 ` Mark Williamson
2005-04-26 20:24 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-04-26 20:47 ` Mark Williamson
2005-04-26 21:02 ` aq
2005-04-27 0:30 ` Mark Williamson
2005-04-27 3:14 ` aq
2005-04-29 3:06 ` Jeremy Katz
2005-04-26 20:49 ` aq
2005-04-26 19:58 ` aq
2005-04-26 20:11 ` Jacob Gorm Hansen
2005-04-26 20:21 ` Anthony Liguori
2005-04-26 20:39 ` Jacob Gorm Hansen [this message]
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