I have been working with a few other Fedora contributors on the Fedora 16 feature "XenPvopsDom0", http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvopsDom0. This feature would provide a robust virtualization alternative based on Xen. Xen is a type-1, hypervisor-based platform and therefore has some different properties than KVM, et al.
One of the integration points we'd like to improve has to do with grubby. As it is hypervisor-based, Xen requires grub to be configured a little differently than bare-metal Linux.
In summary, where bare-metal Linux needs:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-... initrd /boot/initramgs-...
Xen requires:
kernel /boot/xen.gz module /boot/vmlinuz-... module /boot/initramfs-...
There are two bugs in Bugzilla related to this:
658387, Patch to allow mbkernel and mbargs to be read from /etc/sysconfig/kernel 668063, Grubby does not handle "template" that uses module keyword properly
Is anyone who is a grubby contributor interested in adding these features to grubby to support the XenPvopsDom0 feature? I've provided a patch in bug #658387.
Thanks,
On 07/25/2011 04:38 AM, W. Michael Petullo wrote:
I have been working with a few other Fedora contributors on the Fedora 16 feature "XenPvopsDom0", http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvopsDom0. This feature would provide a robust virtualization alternative based on Xen. Xen is a type-1, hypervisor-based platform and therefore has some different properties than KVM, et al.
One of the integration points we'd like to improve has to do with grubby. As it is hypervisor-based, Xen requires grub to be configured a little differently than bare-metal Linux.
In summary, where bare-metal Linux needs:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-... initrd /boot/initramgs-...
Xen requires:
kernel /boot/xen.gz module /boot/vmlinuz-... module /boot/initramfs-...
There are two bugs in Bugzilla related to this:
658387, Patch to allow mbkernel and mbargs to be read from /etc/sysconfig/kernel 668063, Grubby does not handle "template" that uses module keyword properly
Is anyone who is a grubby contributor interested in adding these features to grubby to support the XenPvopsDom0 feature? I've provided a patch in bug #658387.
Thanks,
Is it possible to use augeas [1]? There is currently lens for grub.conf
RR
On 7/25/11 8:31 AM, Roman Rakus wrote:
On 07/25/2011 04:38 AM, W. Michael Petullo wrote:
Is anyone who is a grubby contributor interested in adding these features to grubby to support the XenPvopsDom0 feature? I've provided a patch in bug #658387.
Is it possible to use augeas [1]? There is currently lens for grub.conf
It may certainly be possible - and perhaps even desirable - to replace grubby with augeas, but that's not really what he asked.
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On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 08:36:00AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
On 7/25/11 8:31 AM, Roman Rakus wrote:
On 07/25/2011 04:38 AM, W. Michael Petullo wrote:
Is anyone who is a grubby contributor interested in adding these features to grubby to support the XenPvopsDom0 feature? I've provided a patch in bug #658387.
Is it possible to use augeas [1]? There is currently lens for grub.conf
It may certainly be possible - and perhaps even desirable - to replace grubby with augeas, but that's not really what he asked.
Yep. Anyone willing to apply the patch from #658387 ?
-- Pasi
On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 09:41:17PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 08:36:00AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
On 7/25/11 8:31 AM, Roman Rakus wrote:
On 07/25/2011 04:38 AM, W. Michael Petullo wrote:
Is anyone who is a grubby contributor interested in adding these features to grubby to support the XenPvopsDom0 feature? I've provided a patch in bug #658387.
Is it possible to use augeas [1]? There is currently lens for grub.conf
It may certainly be possible - and perhaps even desirable - to replace grubby with augeas, but that's not really what he asked.
Yep. Anyone willing to apply the patch from #658387 ?
Ping?
-- Pasi
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 03:02:39PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 09:41:17PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 08:36:00AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
On 7/25/11 8:31 AM, Roman Rakus wrote:
On 07/25/2011 04:38 AM, W. Michael Petullo wrote:
Is anyone who is a grubby contributor interested in adding these features to grubby to support the XenPvopsDom0 feature? I've provided a patch in bug #658387.
Is it possible to use augeas [1]? There is currently lens for grub.conf
It may certainly be possible - and perhaps even desirable - to replace grubby with augeas, but that's not really what he asked.
Yep. Anyone willing to apply the patch from #658387 ?
Ping?
Hello again,
These two bugs/patches are needed for F16 grubby: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658387 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668063
Thanks,
-- Pasi
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