Pkg xen devel - Jul 2010 - Bug#588839: Include pv-grub to securely boot guest kernels

Package: xen-utils-4.0
Version: 4.0.1~rc3-1
Severity: wishlist

Please include pv-grub images in xen-utils or as a seperate package.
Pv-grub allows securely booting guest kernels.

[0] http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/PvGrub

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xen-utils-4.0 depends on:
ii  e2fslibs                1.41.12-2        ext2/ext3/ext4 file system librari
ii  iproute                 20100519-2       networking and traffic control too
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-2         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libncurses5             5.7+20100313-2   shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libxenstore3.0          4.0.1~rc3-1      Xenstore communications library fo
ii  python-support          1.0.9            automated rebuilding support for P
ii  python2.5               2.5.5-6          An interactive high-level object-o
ii  udev                    158-1            /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  xen-utils-common        4.0.0-1          XEN administrative tools - common 
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages xen-utils-4.0 recommends:
ii  bridge-utils                 1.4-5       Utilities for configuring the Linu
ii  xen-hypervisor-4.0-amd64 [xe 4.0.1~rc3-1 The Xen Hypervisor on AMD64

Versions of packages xen-utils-4.0 suggests:
pn  xen-docs-4.0                  <none>     (no description available)

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tags 588839 help
thanks

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 08:38:27PM +0200, Dmitry Nedospasov
wrote:
> Please include pv-grub images in xen-utils or as a seperate package.
Please provide a patch. It have to reuse the existing packages for the
used libraries.

Bastian

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