RE: Building domains as a lesser user (was Re: [Xen-devel] boot loaders for domain != 0)

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Yeah, I think kexec would work but unfortunately it's not part of the 
> kernel yet.  It could be folded into Xen but I agree with 
> Jeremy that it 
> seems like overkill.  Boot through Linux just to get to a grub screen 
> seems a little strange too.

The 'action' part of kexec is very arch specific, and the Xen
environment make it easily to implement. We don't have to wory about
shutting down virtual devices or such like as they will recover
automatically.

Knocking up an arch xen kexec should be easy.

We could implement the system call in arch Xen even though it isn't in
the mainstream kernel yet.

Ian


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