Re: Xen vs. GRUB

[Tristan Gingold]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 07:46:59PM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 January 2007 13:09, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> > Is there a consensus that GRUB (or rather GRUB2) should be ported to
> > allow them to run in a Xen environment?
> 
> Sorry for my late response. Personally, I think it is a good idea to port 
> GRUB 
> 2 to Xen. Xen is just a firmware from GRUB's point of view, so it should not 
> be very difficult to do.
Humm, you have to write a few device drivers...

What is the point in porting grub to xen ?  Xen directly loads the kernel and
Xen comes with pygrub (a grub clone in python) which allows the user to
choose kernel and set parameters.  (Although I have never tried it).

Tristan.