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From: Jacob Gorm Hansen <jacobg@diku.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Guest boot loader support
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:39:27 -0700
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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