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On Sun, Jan 06, 2019 at 01:45:53AM +0100, Hans van Kranenburg wrote: > Hm, so I have a PV (or PVH) domU in a test environment here, and I tried > to use it in the Debian way of booting it. > > If I install grub-xen-bin inside the domU then I get some stuff, but not > update-grub. When I just also install grub2 it drags in more stuff, and > then I end up with update-grub and a

...this would need to be in new grub-xen-pvh-bin / grub-xen-pvh binary > packages, as is usual for separate platform builds? I was thinking about having an additional... /usr/lib/grub-xen/grub-i386-xen_pvh.bin ...in the grub-xen-host package, built with the same config file (debian/grub-xen-host_grub.cfg in the packaging) and then... /usr/lib/grub/i386-xen_pvh/*.mod ...in grub-xen-bin, just as an additional third option besides i386-xen and x86_64-xen? This would be the most convenient "upgrade path". If you want to switch to PVH, just change kernel line in the xen guest config...

Hi Debian Grub maintainer, In december, Xen PVH support has been committed in grub master: https://www.mail-archive.com/grub-devel at gnu.org/msg28125.html The last pieces needed in the Linux kernel to boot PVH with grub2 landed in Linux 4.20. I asked our kernel team to carry those patches on top of the Linux 4.19 kernel that is going to ship in Buster, and that wish was granted:

...>>> packages, as is usual for separate platform builds? >> >> I was thinking about having an additional... >> >> /usr/lib/grub-xen/grub-i386-xen_pvh.bin >> >> ...in the grub-xen-host package, built with the same config file >> (debian/grub-xen-host_grub.cfg in the packaging) and then... >> >> /usr/lib/grub/i386-xen_pvh/*.mod >> >> ...in grub-xen-bin, just as an additional third option besides i386-xen >> and x86_64-xen? This would be the most convenient "upgrade path". If you >> want to switch to P...