Re: GRUB2 EFI and multiboot.mod for use with Xen

[Søren Grønning Iversen]

 I have existing well functioning Xen setups that I'd like to transfer 
to this Mac Pro, but the only bit that seems to block this move is the 
capabilities of GRUB2-EFI concerning multiboot functionality.

I'm very pleased with my experiences with Xen until now and I am much 
more at home with Xen at the moment so it never really struck me that I 
might very well look to KVM for this ... One thing that has definately 
caught my attention with KVM is Red Hat's emerging oVirt management 
interface. It seems to be a really slick Ruby on Rails based piece of 
work and I could see that do a lot of good for me in the future, but 
this is altogether a different story from the GRUB2-EFI starting point ;)

-Søren


On 23/11/10 16.57, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 04:54:16PM +0100, Søren Grønning Iversen wrote:
> >   Hi everyone,
> >
> > Has anybody had any success multibooting a bootia32.efi setup with Xen
> > on a Mac Pro / Xserve?
> >
> > I have a MacPro1,1 (dual processor dual core Xeon 2.0 GHz) booting
> > nicely with bootia32.efi, but would really like to be able to experiment
> > with having Xen on the same server, since I need to have at least 2-3
> > Linux installations running on that particular type of hardware and
> > would much prefer using virtualization for this ...
> >
> > I understand that there has been some issues concerning the multiboot
> > module not being built when specifying ./configure --with-platform=efi
> > .... -Is this history now?
> >
> > It seems that Debian includes the multiboot.mod with the
> > grub-efi-i386.deb, but exactly what modules does it depend on? -I have
> > tried creating a GRUB2 image file with the multiboot.mod module
> > included, but it never booted ...
> Any reason not to use kvm?  Seems much simpler to use than xen and also
> seems to be the way most people are going these days.