FS#44201 - [grub] Provide the xen architecture for grub as part of the grub package
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Arch Linux
Opened by David Kowis (BeepDog) - Sunday, 15 March 2015, 22:06 GMT
Last edited by freswa (frederik) - Tuesday, 24 March 2020, 18:58 GMT
Opened by David Kowis (BeepDog) - Sunday, 15 March 2015, 22:06 GMT
Last edited by freswa (frederik) - Tuesday, 24 March 2020, 18:58 GMT
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the grub upstream has merged in support for pvgrub2 which can be used in xen to do far better chainloading of domUs than pvgrub or pygrub. It would make it substantially easier to boot domUs in archlinux. https://blog.xenproject.org/2015/01/07/using-grub-2-as-a-bootloader-for-xen-pv-guests/ From the article: "This meant that it was now possible to compile the upstream grub 2 code base to run as a pvgrub2 Xen PV guest, in much the same way as the original pvgrub-legacy port of Grub legacy. This has the same advantages as the pvgrub-legacy port originally had, except using the more modern grub 2 code base. In addition since this support was part of upstream grub there was no fork to maintain and therefore no risk that the Xen PV support would languish. " merged email: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2013-11/msg00085.html It'd be super handy to have this also as part of the grub package so I could use it on my dom0. Thanks! |
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Closed by freswa (frederik)
Tuesday, 24 March 2020, 18:58 GMT
Reason for closing: None
Additional comments about closing: This seems pretty stalled to me. If it's still an issue, please fill a re-open request. Thank you :)
Tuesday, 24 March 2020, 18:58 GMT
Reason for closing: None
Additional comments about closing: This seems pretty stalled to me. If it's still an issue, please fill a re-open request. Thank you :)
--with-platform=xen
reference material: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/PvGrub2
Thanks!