From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: Deficiencies in guest bootloader design Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:40:56 -0500 Message-ID: <443E7108.1080102@us.ibm.com> References: <014901c65f06$a9501c80$d801a8c0@zaphod> <20060413151044.GB23641@leeni.uk.xensource.com> <443E6D3C.3080802@us.ibm.com> <20060413153617.GD23641@leeni.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20060413153617.GD23641@leeni.uk.xensource.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: Ewan Mellor Cc: Michael Paesold , Xen Devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Ewan Mellor wrote: > On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 10:24:44AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> Just as a warning, it's not going to be simple to run something like >> pygrub from Xend. The reason it runs from xm now is that it needs to >> interact with the user. If it were launched from Xend, it need to find >> a way to attach to a PTY that xenconsoled would use so that it can >> display the text over the normal console before actually launching the >> domain. >> >> It's certainly not impossible but it touches quite a few things. >> > > So how _is_ the virtual frame buffer coming along? ;-) > Yeah, I've talked to Jeremy about the fact that the virtual frame buffer just makes the situation 100 times worse :-) Regards, Anthony Liguori > Ewan. >