Bug 435061 - Xenner does not support pygrub bootloader
Summary: Xenner does not support pygrub bootloader
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xenner
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Gerd Hoffmann
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: LibvirtXenner
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Reported: 2008-02-27 04:06 UTC by Daniel Berrangé
Modified: 2008-04-11 15:41 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-04-11 15:41:01 UTC
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Description Daniel Berrangé 2008-02-27 04:06:05 UTC
Description of problem:
Paravirt xen guests need to boot from a kernel/initrd. This works fine for the
initial install, but post-install it is neccessary to boot from the
kernel/initrd inside the guest. This requires use of pygrub.

Xenner does not support invoking pygrub.

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Comment 1 Gerd Hoffmann 2008-02-27 12:44:25 UTC
pygrub is supported, it is invoked automatically when started without -kernel
option.  It isn't documented though (which should be fixed, so I leave that one
open as reminder to update the docs).

Comment 2 Daniel Berrangé 2008-02-27 22:50:48 UTC
We should probably add an explicit command line param

  -bootloader PATH-TO-BOOTLOADER

Libvirt's XML format allows us to specify an arbitrary path to a bootloader, and
I thus was planning to add a '-bootloader' flag to qemu-dm to support Xennite,
so we might as well keep Xenner consistent in this regard & do the same.


Comment 3 Gerd Hoffmann 2008-04-10 11:15:32 UTC
-bootloader arg sounds very useful.  I'll implement that.

Comment 4 Gerd Hoffmann 2008-04-11 15:41:01 UTC
Done.


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