Re: GRUB2 EFI and multiboot.mod for use with Xen

["Søren Grønning Iversen" <sgi@dskd.dk>]

  I have existing well functioning Xen setups that I'd like to transfer 
to this Mac Pro, but the only bit that seems to block this move is the 
capabilities of GRUB2-EFI concerning multiboot functionality.

I'm very pleased with my experiences with Xen until now and I am much 
more at home with Xen at the moment so it never really struck me that I 
might very well look to KVM for this ... One thing that has definately 
caught my attention with KVM is Red Hat's emerging oVirt management 
interface. It seems to be a really slick Ruby on Rails based piece of 
work and I could see that do a lot of good for me in the future, but 
this is altogether a different story from the GRUB2-EFI starting point ;)

-Søren


On 23/11/10 16.57, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 04:54:16PM +0100, Søren Grønning Iversen wrote:
>>   Hi everyone,
>>
>> Has anybody had any success multibooting a bootia32.efi setup with Xen
>> on a Mac Pro / Xserve?
>>
>> I have a MacPro1,1 (dual processor dual core Xeon 2.0 GHz) booting
>> nicely with bootia32.efi, but would really like to be able to experiment
>> with having Xen on the same server, since I need to have at least 2-3
>> Linux installations running on that particular type of hardware and
>> would much prefer using virtualization for this ...
>>
>> I understand that there has been some issues concerning the multiboot
>> module not being built when specifying ./configure --with-platform=efi
>> .... -Is this history now?
>>
>> It seems that Debian includes the multiboot.mod with the
>> grub-efi-i386.deb, but exactly what modules does it depend on? -I have
>> tried creating a GRUB2 image file with the multiboot.mod module
>> included, but it never booted ...
> Any reason not to use kvm?  Seems much simpler to use than xen and also
> seems to be the way most people are going these days.
>