Bug#732247: grub-xen: Package description doesn't explain if this package is thought for DomUs or Dom0s
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 (c.f. http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/PvGrub), so I suggest a more verbose description like this: This package contains a version of GRUB that has been built for use inside Xen guest domains (DomUs), i.e. for use with PV-GRUB. . It does not need to be installed on the Xen Dom0. It's actually both; 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. (In either case it will run in the domU context.) The configuration code is still evolving, though, so some assembly is still required. Mind if I park this bug temporarily until the configuration is a bit more established? -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#732247: grub-xen: Package description doesn't explain if this package is thought for DomUs or Dom0s
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 -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert a...@debian.org, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `-| 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#732247: grub-xen: Package description doesn't explain if this package is thought for DomUs or Dom0s
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 01:03:49PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: Colin Watson wrote: 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. :-) Well, PV-GRUB was based on GRUB Legacy, so in some sense its underlying code has been deprecated for years. It's just that until recently there hasn't been a viable replacement (other than PyGRUB, which has fundamental security issues because it parses the domU's filesystem in the dom0). If you want a sense of the general direction here, see https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2013-12/msg00184.html and thread, although I need to entirely rework the patch set. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
