[Pkg-xen-devel] Xen and Xen-related Packaging Issues

[Elliott Mitchell]

The first packaging issue is I feel PyGRUB really should be split off of
xen-utils-<ver>.  With PvGRUB being *much* better on x86, there doesn't
seem to be that much need for PyGRUB.

I'm also rather unsure of having xen-utils-<ver> do the recommendation
of grub-xen-host (and with the above, xen-util-pygrub).  Guess I need to
map out the dependencies and figure out where those should be
recommended from.


I think the Xen team should formally ask the EDK team to package EDK2's
OvmfPkg/OvmfXen.dsc and ArmVirtPkg/ArmVirtXen.dsc configurations.
Tianocore can directly run on Xen and for certain setups those make far
more sense than PyGRUB or PvGRUB.  Case I'm thinking of is FreeBSD
distributes ARM virtual machine images and these appear to assume EDK
being used for boot.

There might be a need for a "xen-bootloader" or "xen-boot" virtual
packages.  Trick is, should these be "xen-bootloader-<arch>" packages?


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