From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1PKx5P-0000ar-67 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:55:23 -0500 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35301 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PKx5N-0000Zy-6q for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:55:22 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PKx5M-00087s-2o for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:55:21 -0500 Received: from designskolenkolding.dk ([217.60.12.73]:44606 helo=mail.dskd.dk) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PKx5L-00087F-Nw for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:55:20 -0500 Received: from [172.16.1.8] (217.157.130.7) by exchange2007.dskd.dk (172.16.1.12) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 8.1.436.0; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:55:15 +0100 Message-ID: <4CEC0003.8080606@dskd.dk> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:55:15 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?U8O4cmVuIEdyw7hubmluZyBJdmVyc2Vu?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB References: <4CEBE3A8.8030104@dskd.dk> <20101123155758.GD12909@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <20101123155758.GD12909@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Windows 2000 SP2+, XP SP1+ (seldom 98) Subject: Re: GRUB2 EFI and multiboot.mod for use with Xen X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:55:22 -0000 I have existing well functioning Xen setups that I'd like to transfer=20 to this Mac Pro, but the only bit that seems to block this move is the=20 capabilities of GRUB2-EFI concerning multiboot functionality. I'm very pleased with my experiences with Xen until now and I am much=20 more at home with Xen at the moment so it never really struck me that I=20 might very well look to KVM for this ... One thing that has definately=20 caught my attention with KVM is Red Hat's emerging oVirt management=20 interface. It seems to be a really slick Ruby on Rails based piece of=20 work and I could see that do a lot of good for me in the future, but=20 this is altogether a different story from the GRUB2-EFI starting point ;) -S=C3=B8ren On 23/11/10 16.57, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 04:54:16PM +0100, S=C3=B8ren Gr=C3=B8nning Iverse= n 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=3Defi >> .... -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. >