Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, le Tue 30 Mar 2010 00:39:31 +0200, a écrit : > 6) Paravirtualized environments are often used for security reasons. In > this context it's preferable to have a bootloader inside virtual machine > rather than outside. Some paravirtualized environments are carbon copy > of some real machines. Those need no special support but other platforms do > Interesting platforms: xen > Interesting ISAs: i386, x86_64, ppc, ia64
It is worth noting that in the case of Xen, GRUB1 was already ported and is called "PV-GRUB" in the Xen source, so much of that work could be re-used (in particular the kexec mechanism to switch from the GRUB PV guest to the booted PV kernel). Samuel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
