From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1VrABz-0003kS-71 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:36:55 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43370) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VrABw-0003ih-EG for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:36:53 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VrABq-0003Z7-OH for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:36:52 -0500 Received: from v6.chiark.greenend.org.uk ([2001:ba8:1e3::]:51804 helo=chiark.greenend.org.uk) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VrABq-0003Yn-5F for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:36:46 -0500 Received: from [172.20.153.9] (helo=riva.pelham.vpn.ucam.org) by chiark.greenend.org.uk (Debian Exim 4.72 #1) with esmtps (return-path cjwatson@ubuntu.com) id 1VrABp-0005Ah-4f for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 17:36:45 +0000 Received: from ns1.pelham.vpn.ucam.org ([172.20.153.2] helo=riva.ucam.org) by riva.pelham.vpn.ucam.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VrABo-00030h-62 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 17:36:44 +0000 Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 17:36:43 +0000 From: Colin Watson To: grub-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Build grub.xen. Message-ID: <20131212173643.GH1431@riva.ucam.org> References: <20131212153643.GA1431@riva.ucam.org> <20131212153741.GD1431@riva.ucam.org> <20131212163907.GG1431@riva.ucam.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:ba8:1e3:: X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 17:36:53 -0000 On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 05:45:30PM +0100, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > No I meant full access to just obe of guest partitions. E.g. FTP may be > using separate partition and non-admins may have control over it. If system > has some kind of automatic user creation and /home is separate someone may > register as boot or grub and put grub.xen in his directory. If /tmp is on > separate partition and not in RAM then everybody can put grub.xen to > /tmp/grub/grub.xen Oh, right. Perhaps we could just look in a limited set of devices, e.g. (xen/xvda) or (xen/xvda1)? I'm not very familiar with how multi-partition Xen guests are typically set up. How is the root partition generally designated at the moment? -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]