Lu, Yinghai
2006-Jul-14 16:40 UTC
RE: Xen bootloader (was: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Roadmap proposal)
You need to make sure the format can be handle by kexec. It could handle elf, linux kernel, grub.exe (for multiboot?), ... Maybe it is off topic. I am considering to use LinuxBIOS in hvmloader...then it could only support Linux ( with etherboot and FILO can load kernel from network or HD then kexec ). I can reuse LinuxBIOS ACPI code ... If the guest OS need BIOS call, we may need to use ADLO and BOCHS to feed the OS....----for windows and BSDs... YH -----Original Message----- From: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of John Levon Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 7:27 AM To: yhlu Cc: Ian Pratt; Anthony Liguori; xen-devel@lists.xensource.com; Mark Williamson; Michael Loehr Subject: Re: Xen bootloader (was: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Roadmap proposal) On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 10:12:47PM -0700, yhlu wrote:> On 7/13/06, Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > >Just floating this for general comment - > > > >For the bootloader work, we should consider Kboot: > >http://kboot.sourceforge.net/It sounds like this is only going to be usable to boot Linux? regards john _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel