From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5579813881C for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:09:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E792B21C03F; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:09:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-io0-f171.google.com (mail-io0-f171.google.com [209.85.223.171]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 94DBF21C028 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:09:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iofb144 with SMTP id b144so80018066iof.1 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 08:09:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=ocmX2qSaWGp000La1MoPDhLb3mp7OAzpMV9/OVcmx/M=; b=rISG0X+HNUIMaH2EZrwTlIdxnIKw4XVqTC0wWVHTJ3nslJ9COFihhAgVZrbFhJJhKs j/sqZqDImX6bNHYHWVXMOPw3+uy9+DBRN3IszX2JbZgqL3SQU9uCZwVaxex8+mQVMOfe 9x16EFBw/x31AlVnimQKjCo7JMm3c3BT6klQCswkNuT7d5TlxQAy+nV5mK2hRWCvkeAy sOGChQIalS9NMWOjtga1m+j1ptpxVuvphCQEzLpymv5vyURonNwuVwQF3kSGrhFfrBc2 Fk3LRppUdbSdHhUVdSd50syoquPS7T9xTv/RXVKONqSs6RMgHHaNIGgVp9o+rFD7RTze ZiXQ== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.107.28.140 with SMTP id c134mr1056909ioc.93.1443107344955; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 08:09:04 -0700 (PDT) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.79.103.70 with HTTP; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 08:09:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <11365357.NG11K6Gkr5@andromeda> References: <5603CAEB.2050709@gc-24.de> <9C8B1369-35D6-4491-8C44-7FE00B796FE0@antarean.org> <11365357.NG11K6Gkr5@andromeda> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 11:09:04 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: _rV1iEAzwEd80Il6_DYAAbHHnXQ Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo as a xen guest From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 24d69ef8-0bc0-4b83-b941-36ac0a297953 X-Archives-Hash: 3c3c22bc676a29485392e6ce7cda2d5e On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 9:50 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Sounds like pvgrub. I never looked into setting that up, afaiui, it mounts the > guest filesystem, grabs the grub.cfg, grabs the kernel listed there, umounts, > then boots the guest. > Indeed, that is exactly the behavior Amazon has, and I'm pretty sure their "logs" show pvgrub in the output. >From their standpoint it probably gives them a really easy way to make guest filesystems self-contained without the need to tweak the hypervisor environment to make each guest run. -- Rich