What''s the current status of the XenU boot loader code? I saw earlier posts saying kboot was going to be used. Is this working in any version of the codebase at the moment? Thanks, John _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
John Hannfield wrote:> What''s the current status of the XenU boot loader code? > I saw earlier posts saying kboot was going to be used. > Is this working in any version of the codebase at the moment?Patches are at http://www.suse.de/~kraxel/patches/, kexec is still at proof-of-concept state. You can already play with it, but it has to many remaining issues to be solved before it can be concidered production quality. My current #1 priority is the domain builder rework though (domU kexec support depends on that one), not kexec/kboot itself. cheers, Gerd -- Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de> http://www.suse.de/~kraxel/julika-dora.jpeg _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
> What''s the current status of the XenU boot loader code?I think the best solution for now is to leverage Werner Almesberger''s kboot (http://kboot.sf.net) and possibly the IBM zSeries guys "System Loader" patch to it.> I saw earlier posts saying kboot was going to be used. > Is this working in any version of the codebase at the moment?This was stalled on a kexec implementation being available for Xen, but Gerd has been doing some great work on making this possible. The main other sticking point with using kboot is that it won''t be so straightforward to boot off ZFS filesystems for OpenSolaris (although there is a project to port the OpenSolaris ZFS code to run under FUSE on Linux, so this may be possible one day...). Cheers, Mark -- Dave: Just a question. What use is a unicyle with no seat? And no pedals! Mark: To answer a question with a question: What use is a skateboard? Dave: Skateboards have wheels. Mark: My wheel has a wheel! _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel