From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1PKxRH-000064-Jh for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:17:59 -0500 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41981 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PKxRC-0008WH-1Q for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:17:58 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PKxR6-0004nq-HK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:17:53 -0500 Received: from caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.17]:38973) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PKxR6-0004nd-DF for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:17:48 -0500 Received: from caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 063AA7FBD for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:17:45 -0500 (EST) Received: by caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Postfix, from userid 20367) id E839210D30; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:17:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:17:44 -0500 To: The development of GNU GRUB Message-ID: <20101123181744.GE12909@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <4CEBE3A8.8030104@dskd.dk> <20101123155758.GD12909@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <4CEC0003.8080606@dskd.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4CEC0003.8080606@dskd.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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 18:17:58 -0000 On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 06:55:15PM +0100, S=C3=B8ren Gr=C3=B8nning Iverse= n wrote: > 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. 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 =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 = ;) 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. --=20 Len Sorensen