Hi Colin,
Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 12:48:40AM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > the current package description of grub-xen leaves open if this package
> > is thought for DomUs (guest machines) or Dom0s (host machines):
> >
> > This package contains a version of GRUB that has been built for use
> > with the Xen hypervisor (i.e. PV-GRUB).
> >
> > I though suspect it's for use within a DomU
[...]
> It's actually both;
Oh, ok.
> the intention is that you can install it within a
> domU so that it always matches the grub.cfg there, and also have a copy
> in dom0 to replace the old PV-GRUB.
That's surprising. IIRC pv-grub-menu is a relative new package and
there were some issues with pv-grub support in Debian's Xen in the
past. Didn't know that pv-grub is already deprecated again. (Haven't
yet started playing with it. :-)
> The configuration code is still evolving, though, so some assembly
> is still required.
OK. Planned to play around it with on my Xen test box at work after
the season's holidays.
> Mind if I park this bug temporarily until the configuration is a bit
> more established?
Not at all! I gyess it serves perfectly as reminder to rework the
description once the package stabilizes. :-)
Thanks for the feedback!
Regards, Axel
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