Re: [Xen-devel] PATCH 0/3: Direct linux kernel boot for HVM

Keir Fraser
Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:48:13 -0000

On 19/12/07 05:38, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
wrote:

> Those who saw Chris Wright give my Xen summit presentation a few weeks back
> may remember one of the proposals was to support direct linux kernel boot
> for HVM guests. ie, the ability to have a guest boot off a kernel, initrd,
> and args instead of merely the BIOS supported disk/cdrom/network.

Is the aim to be able to boot from any device that can be plumbed to qemu,
or to allow kernel/initrd parms to be specified from outside the HVM
bootloader config file? If the former, Anthony Liguori''s recent patch
to
implement an option ROM to allow easy cut-thru to any qemu backend device
looks like an easier way to achieve that aim.

 -- Keir