Feature changed by: pgnet Dev (pgnet) Feature #306592, revision 2 Title: PV Grub support in opensuse openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Josef Reidinger (jreidinger) Description: To xen is added new feature that allows using own kernel in XEN guest. More info is here http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2008/08/28/xen-33-feature-pv-grub/ (http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2008/08/28/xen-33-feature-pv-grub/) . Some xen hosting services already contain this functionality http://www.linode.com/wiki/index.php/PV-GRUB (http://www.linode.com/wiki/index.php/PV-GRUB) .Discussion about this feature happen on yast-devel mailing list http://lists.opensuse.org/yast-devel/2009-06/msg00071.html (http://lists.opensuse.org/yast-devel/2009-06/msg00071.html) + Discussion: + #1: pgnet Dev (pgnet) (2009-07-02 00:53:04) + i'll still argue that this is _not_ a feature request, and should've + been left open as a bug. + the point of the discussion was that it _does_ already work.  opensuse + can be booted as a DomU from a pv-grub (32/64) kernel. + what's 'buggy' is opensuse's grub v0.97.  as referenced in the + aforementioned thread, grub fails to recognize filesystems on + unpartitioned drives that are perfectly legitimately formatted devices + passed to the DomU.  i.e., grub chokes when passed (hd0) -- if/as + required by pv-grub -- instead of its 'usual' (hd0,0). + the grub included in Xen PVGRUB/MiniOS image _has_ been patched to fix, + & the patch is referenced/provided above. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306592

Feature changed by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Feature #306592, revision 4 Title: PV Grub support in opensuse - openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed + openSUSE-11.2: Rejected by Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) + reject date: 2009-08-12 14:22:34 + reject reason: Too late for 11.2. Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Josef Reidinger (jreidinger) Description: To xen is added new feature that allows using own kernel in XEN guest. More info is here http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2008/08/28/xen-33-feature-pv-grub/ (http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2008/08/28/xen-33-feature-pv-grub/) . Some xen hosting services already contain this functionality http://www.linode.com/wiki/index.php/PV-GRUB (http://www.linode.com/wiki/index.php/PV-GRUB) .Discussion about this feature happen on yast-devel mailing list http://lists.opensuse.org/yast-devel/2009-06/msg00071.html (http://lists.opensuse.org/yast-devel/2009-06/msg00071.html) Discussion: #1: pgnet Dev (pgnet) (2009-07-02 00:53:04) i'll still argue that this is _not_ a feature request, and should've been left open as a bug. the point of the discussion was that it _does_ already work.  opensuse can be booted as a DomU from a pv-grub (32/64) kernel. what's 'buggy' is opensuse's grub v0.97.  as referenced in the aforementioned thread, grub fails to recognize filesystems on unpartitioned drives that are perfectly legitimately formatted devices passed to the DomU.  i.e., grub chokes when passed (hd0) -- if/as required by pv-grub -- instead of its 'usual' (hd0,0). the grub included in Xen PVGRUB/MiniOS image _has_ been patched to fix, & the patch is referenced/provided above. #2: Josef Reidinger (jreidinger) (2009-07-02 08:57:38) (reply to #1) Also perl-Bootloader doesn't support this, as partitionless disc is not expected, so section which has root on disc and not partition is not created. And final I think that also yast2-Bootloader have problems with installation on that disc. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306592