Re: [libvirt] [PATCHv2 1/2] bhyve: Support /domain/bootloader configuration for non-FreeBSD guests.

2014-10-27 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 03:28:33PM -0700, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 6:11 AM, Conrad Rad wrote: > > > > > Any idea how soon? Months? A year? 5 years? I'm not comfortable > > postponing improvements indefinitely for vaporware. In the wonderful > > bhyve-UEFI future, we can ig

Re: [PATCHv2 1/2] bhyve: Support /domain/bootloader configuration for non-FreeBSD guests.

2014-10-24 Thread Craig Rodrigues
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 6:11 AM, Conrad Rad wrote: > > Any idea how soon? Months? A year? 5 years? I'm not comfortable > postponing improvements indefinitely for vaporware. In the wonderful > bhyve-UEFI future, we can ignore/warn about . > > Hi, I have to agree with Conrad here. I hope that any

Re: [PATCHv2 1/2] bhyve: Support /domain/bootloader configuration for non-FreeBSD guests.

2014-10-24 Thread Conrad Rad
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Roman Bogorodskiy wrote: > Conrad Meyer wrote: > Hi Conrad. > > Thanks for the patch. As for the /tmp, probably storing it somewhere in > BHYVE_STATE_DIR would be more clean. Sure. > However, I'm concerned about libvirt dealing with the grub-bhyve > specifics

Re: [PATCHv2 1/2] bhyve: Support /domain/bootloader configuration for non-FreeBSD guests.

2014-10-23 Thread Roman Bogorodskiy
Conrad Meyer wrote: > We still default to bhyveloader(1) if no explicit bootloader > configuration is supplied in the domain. > > If the /domain/bootloader looks like grub-bhyve and the user doesn't > supply /domain/bootloader_args, we make an intelligent guess and try > chainloading the first

[PATCHv2 1/2] bhyve: Support /domain/bootloader configuration for non-FreeBSD guests.

2014-10-23 Thread Conrad Meyer
We still default to bhyveloader(1) if no explicit bootloader configuration is supplied in the domain. If the /domain/bootloader looks like grub-bhyve and the user doesn't supply /domain/bootloader_args, we make an intelligent guess and try chainloading the first partition on the disk. Caveats: -