From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GRUB2 EFI and multiboot.mod for use with Xen
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:17:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101123181744.GE12909@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CEC0003.8080606@dskd.dk>
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 06:55:15PM +0100, Søren Grønning Iversen wrote:
> 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.
Oh, are you trying to dual boot the Mac between Linux (to run xen stuff)
and Mac OS?
> 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 ;)
I have used grub2 on standard BIOS based PCs, and on openfirmware.
I haven't tried EFI myself, so no idea what kind of bugs to expect
with that.
--
Len Sorensen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-23 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-23 15:54 GRUB2 EFI and multiboot.mod for use with Xen Søren Grønning Iversen
2010-11-23 15:57 ` Lennart Sorensen
2010-11-23 17:55 ` Søren Grønning Iversen
2010-11-23 18:17 ` Lennart Sorensen [this message]
2010-11-23 18:25 ` Søren Grønning Iversen
2010-11-23 19:23 ` Lennart Sorensen
2010-11-23 20:08 ` Søren Grønning Iversen
2010-11-23 21:00 ` Lennart Sorensen
2010-11-23 22:05 ` Søren Grønning Iversen
2010-11-24 10:31 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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