Bug#456777: grub-pc: Please support installation Xen virtual block devices

[Robert Millan]

Hi!

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 09:14:45PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> Package: grub-pc
> Version: 1.95+20071101-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> 
> The grub package does not currently support installation in a Xen
> guest domain because it does not understand the Xen virtual block
> devices (/dev/xvd[a-z]).
> 
> This support is mainly useful because it allows the Debian installer to
> work in a Xen guest without Xen specific workarounds.
> 
> It might also be useful for someone who wanted to switch between
> a guest between para-virtual and fully-virtualised (HVM) operation.
> 
> Patch for grub2 is attached. Note however that the paravirtual
> bootloader used by Xen (pygrub) does not yet support the grub2 grub.cfg
> format, just the previous menu.lst format so this patch is necessary but
> not yet sufficient. I'll be working on a patch for this aspect separately.

Thanks for your effort.  Can you please send this to grub-devel at gnu.org ?  We
can discuss this in upstream since it's not Debian-specific.

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Robert Millan

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