Re: [Libvir] [PATCH] Solaris dom0 support

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange redhat com>]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 12:21:09AM +0100, John Levon wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 12:05:33AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 
> > I'm curious as to what the changes for bootloader / kernel are for ?
> > Surely you always have either a bootloader, or a kenrel present in
> > the SEXPR ? So I'm not sure why its neccessary to disable the check
> 
> No, this is not true, and it's not true in Xen too. This is stuff that
> got merged up in my pygrub changes.
> 
> Basically the logic is something like:
> 
> if there is no kernel specified:
>     if there is no bootloader specified:
>         default to pygrub (for Solaris, this will fill in
>         kernel/ramdisk/extra automatically)

Ah ha - this is the key clause I was missing. I didn't realize that
XenD could now default to pygrub. The change in logic makes perfect
sense now. Though I wonder if we should add in an explicit element
for  <bootloader>/usr/bin/pygrub</bootloader> to reflect this default
done by XenD...

Dan.
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