[Libvir] PATCH: Allow Xen HVM kernel+initrd booting

Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net
Tue Feb 5 14:33:18 UTC 2008


"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> The latest xen-unstable tree has support for booting HVM guests using an
> explicit kernel+initrd+cmdline, as an alternative to the traditional BIOS
> boot from harddisk/cdrom/network.  This gives Xen HVM parity with KVM in
> terms of boot methods. The current libvirt Xen driver though assumes that
> Xen paravirt is always kernel+initrd or bootloader based, while Xen HVM
> is always BIOS based.
...

This patch looks fine to me, too.




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