From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
To: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@entel.upc.edu>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Driver domains and hotplug scripts, redux
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:02:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1328040154.28964.29.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPLaKK6uUr5ug8mjURAdewf+0LcLBkx37Q=Q8gF7ZN9RLaAPmA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 09:57 +0000, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>
>
> What I don't get is what you do when you have to boot a PV DomU which
> root HDD is on the driver domain. Dom0 needs the kernel/initrd from
> the HDD (usually extracted using pygrub). Since the HDD is inside the
> driver domain, Dom0 doesn't have access to that image, so there's no
> way to extract the kernel/initrd from the Dom0.
The usual way to deal with is to create a vbd device in dom0 (or which
ever domain runs pygrub) which attached to the backend domain and pass
that to pygrub. This is the sort of thing libxl_device_disk_local_attach
would be expected to handle.
Ian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-31 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-04 16:29 RFC: Still TODO for 4.2? Ian Campbell
2012-01-04 16:47 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-01-04 16:51 ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-01-16 13:42 ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-04 16:55 ` Jan Beulich
2012-01-16 13:39 ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-16 14:48 ` Jan Beulich
2012-01-16 15:00 ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-01-04 17:25 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2012-01-04 17:36 ` George Dunlap
2012-01-04 18:20 ` Tim Deegan
2012-01-05 10:39 ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-06 15:24 ` RFC: Still TODO for 4.2? Nested Paging for Intel Nested Virt Pasi Kärkkäinen
2012-01-04 19:21 ` RFC: Still TODO for 4.2? Wei Huang
2012-01-04 19:43 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2012-01-04 19:57 ` Wei Huang
2012-01-05 7:27 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2012-01-06 15:37 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-01-06 19:08 ` Wei Huang
2012-02-06 17:57 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2012-02-13 17:52 ` Extracting ATI/AMD Radeon VBIOS ROM Pasi Kärkkäinen
2012-01-05 13:19 ` Re : RFC: Still TODO for 4.2? David TECHER
2012-01-05 13:25 ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-05 13:41 ` Re : " David TECHER
2012-01-05 16:18 ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-16 13:28 ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-16 14:39 ` Re : " David TECHER
2012-01-04 17:39 ` Roger Pau Monné
2012-01-05 18:07 ` Driver domains and hotplug scripts, redux Ian Jackson
2012-01-06 12:01 ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-01-09 10:08 ` Roger Pau Monné
2012-01-09 12:26 ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-01-09 17:39 ` Ian Jackson
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2012-01-11 11:50 ` Roger Pau Monné
2012-01-11 12:17 ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-11 14:26 ` Dave Scott
2012-01-12 16:50 ` Ian Jackson
2012-01-12 18:07 ` Dave Scott
2012-01-11 14:44 ` Roger Pau Monné
2012-01-12 16:48 ` Ian Jackson
2012-01-16 17:52 ` Roger Pau Monné
2012-01-16 17:58 ` Ian Jackson
2012-01-17 9:17 ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-17 9:30 ` Roger Pau Monné
2012-01-17 9:43 ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-17 9:40 ` Roger Pau Monné
2012-01-17 9:52 ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-17 10:00 ` Roger Pau Monné
2012-01-17 10:39 ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-23 11:40 ` Roger Pau Monné
2012-01-27 8:43 ` Roger Pau Monné
2012-01-27 10:57 ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-01-31 9:57 ` Roger Pau Monné
2012-01-31 10:06 ` Tim Deegan
2012-01-31 13:47 ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-01-31 13:51 ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-31 13:51 ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-01-31 20:02 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2012-01-17 9:22 ` Roger Pau Monné
2012-01-11 12:50 ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-01-05 17:49 ` RFC: Still TODO for 4.2? Ian Jackson
2012-01-06 13:37 ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-10 16:06 ` Ian Jackson
2012-01-16 11:55 ` George Dunlap
2012-01-19 21:14 ` RFC: Still TODO for 4.2? xl domain numa memory allocation vs xm/xend Pasi Kärkkäinen
2012-01-20 7:59 ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-20 8:15 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2012-01-20 9:01 ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-20 9:47 ` Dario Faggioli
2012-01-20 11:56 ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-23 9:59 ` Juergen Gross
2012-01-20 10:55 ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-01-20 11:22 ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-20 11:25 ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-01-20 11:44 ` Dario Faggioli
2012-01-20 11:54 ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-20 12:04 ` Dario Faggioli
2012-01-20 12:33 ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-20 13:11 ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-20 15:06 ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-20 16:02 ` Dario Faggioli
2012-01-20 16:21 ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-20 16:28 ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-20 16:31 ` George Dunlap
2012-01-20 16:39 ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-20 16:43 ` George Dunlap
2012-01-20 16:54 ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-20 17:32 ` Dario Faggioli
2012-01-23 10:19 ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-23 13:14 ` Dario Faggioli
2012-01-23 13:20 ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-20 16:55 ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-20 16:59 ` George Dunlap
2012-01-20 16:58 ` Dario Faggioli
2012-01-20 17:23 ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-20 17:28 ` Dario Faggioli
2012-01-20 11:26 ` Dario Faggioli
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