Bug#732247: grub-xen: Package description doesn't explain if this package is thought for DomUs or Dom0s

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 01:03:49PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > the intention is that you can install it within a
> > domU so that it always matches the grub.cfg there, and also have a copy
> > in dom0 to replace the old PV-GRUB.
> 
> That's surprising. IIRC pv-grub-menu is a relative new package and
> there were some issues with pv-grub support in Debian's Xen in the
> past. Didn't know that pv-grub is already deprecated again. (Haven't
> yet started playing with it. :-)

Well, PV-GRUB was based on GRUB Legacy, so in some sense its underlying
code has been deprecated for years.  It's just that until recently there
hasn't been a viable replacement (other than PyGRUB, which has
fundamental security issues because it parses the domU's filesystem in
the dom0).

If you want a sense of the general direction here, see
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2013-12/msg00184.html and
thread, although I need to entirely rework the patch set.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]