Re: NPF on domU - more clarity required

[John Nemeth <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost>]

On Dec 27, 10:56am, Greg Troxel wrote:
} > On Dec 26, 11:32pm, Gerard Lally wrote:
} 
} > } As a sidenote, if there's a way of eliminating the grub cruft and using
} > } NetBSD's boot manager instead I'd be glad to hear it.
} >
} >      No, there isn't a way.  This is something that is controlled
} > by the service provider, and not the domU.
} 
} But if we made /boot be able to use PV ops, then we could ask people to
} let it be a kernel choice :-)

     Sounds like you would be turning /boot into a mini-kernel.

} Or, if pvgrub handled FFSv1 and FFSv2 well, we'd still have grub, but at
} least not an extra faux root filesystem.

     As ext2fs is based on FFS, I'm told that pvgrub (pygrub?) can
read from FFS, but that the filesystem setup is highly restricted
(i.e. only works with certain block sizes).  I don't seem to have
the details at hand.

     One option would be to turn /boot into something that works
like pvgrub.  This shouldn't actually be that hard.  This is
something that I added to the project list a while ago:
http://wiki.netbsd.org/projects/project/xenboot/  Of course, this
would require convincing the VPS operator to use it.

}-- End of excerpt from Greg Troxel