I believe that pv-grub chainloads grub on the guest, where as py-grub is 100% python and just reads the config.
/* * Mike Perry * [email protected] */ On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Thomas Goirand <[email protected]> wrote: > Ian Campbell wrote: >> On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 02:49 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >>> Philipp Kern wrote: >>>> On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 03:56:13PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >>>>> Now, I hope someone from the release team will answer this: if we build >>>>> a new xen-pv-grub package, will it be accepted by the RT, even if we are >>>>> late, as the lack of pv-grub in the xen-utils can be considered a >>>>> regression in Squeeze (as Lenny had the feature)? >>>> AFAICS there was no pv-grub in Lenny: >>>> >>>> pk...@franck:~/ftp/ftp/dists/lenny$ zgrep pv-grub Contents-amd64.gz >>>> Contents-i386.gz >>>> pk...@franck:~/ftp/ftp/dists/lenny$ >>>> >>>> If this is the case, there's no regression. Furthermore this is a bug of >>>> severity:wishlist, so no, it would be too late for this. >>>> >>>> Kind regards, >>>> Philipp Kern >>> Considering that here: >>> >>> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/PvGrub >>> >>> it's written that PvGrub is replacing pygrub, >> >> Replacing is rather strong. They serve similar purposes but its entirely >> up to user preference and/or requirements which one is used. They >> certainly aren't mutually exclusive or anything like that and pygrub is >> not going away upstream any time soon. > > Replacing isn't my wording. Should the wiki be changed? > > What's the advantages/differences of pv-grub compared to pygrub then? > What is the point in having 2 p*grub that do the same thing? > >>> and that in Lenny (unless there's still pygrub in Squeeze, >> >> pygrub _is_ in squeeze: >> $ dpkg -S /usr/lib/xen-*/bin/pygrub >> xen-utils-4.0: /usr/lib/xen-4.0/bin/pygrub >> >> I haven't seen any suggestion, from Bastian or otherwise, that it will >> be removed. >> >> I don't believe pvgrub was in Lenny. >> >> Ian. > > Cool, thanks for clarifying this. I run outdated self-backported version > of Bastian's packages (shame on me...), which is why I wasn't sure. > > Thomas > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-xen-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-xen-devel > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
