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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
	Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] is kexec on Xen domU possible?
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 00:49:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ob9so0sa.fsf@xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130724004058.GA20327@kroah.com> (Greg KH's message of "Tue, 23 Jul 2013 17:40:58 -0700")

Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 05:22:36PM -0700, Matt Wilson wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:33:15AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:24:46AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> > > On 07/22/2013 10:20 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> 
>> Many Xen-based cloud providers provide a mechanism for users to boot
>> the kernels they want. For example you can use PV-GRUB on EC2
>> instances to boot a kernel that is stored within an AMI.
>> 
>> For more info:
>>   http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/UserProvidedkernels.html
>
> Yes, that's quite true, but some don't, or they make it difficult to do
> so.  Using kexec also allows you to "be the bootloader" and decide on
> _which_ kernel you want to boot, independant of what cloud provider you
> use, something that lots of people want in their quest to not dependant
> on any one company.

I would be more than happy to review and help get something merged that
sorts out kexec on Xen.

Eric


      reply	other threads:[~2013-07-24  7:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-19  2:06 is kexec on Xen domU possible? Greg KH
2013-07-19 13:18 ` Daniel Kiper
2013-07-19 13:54   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-07-19 19:04     ` Olaf Hering
2013-07-19 14:58   ` Brandon Philips
2013-07-19 18:19     ` Daniel Kiper
2013-07-19 15:12   ` Greg KH
2013-07-19 18:32     ` Daniel Kiper
2013-07-19 19:14       ` Greg KH
2013-07-19 20:58         ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-22 17:03           ` Daniel Kiper
2013-07-22 17:20             ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-07-22 18:24               ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-22 18:33                 ` Greg KH
2013-07-22 18:36                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-24  0:22                   ` [Xen-devel] " Matt Wilson
2013-07-24  0:40                     ` Greg KH
2013-07-24  7:49                       ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]

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