Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH OSSTEST v2 10/15] distros: support booting Debian PV (d-i installed) guests with pvgrub.

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2014-05-02 at 14:03 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Campbell writes ("[PATCH OSSTEST v2 10/15] distros: support booting 
> Debian PV (d-i installed) guests with pvgrub."):
> > This requires the use of the pv-grub-menu package which is in Jessie 
> > onwards.
> > (it is in wheezy-backports which is the subject of a subsequent flight).
> > 
> > The bootloader to use is specified via a runvar {Guest}_bootloader.
> > 
> > Adjust make-distros-flight to use pvgrub for some subset of i386 and amd64
> > guests to get coverage.
> 
> This looks reasonable to me.
> 
> Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Ta.

> > -    my $blcfg = <<END;
> > +    my $pvgrub = {
> > +   i386 => "/usr/local/lib/xen/boot/pv-grub-x86_32.gz",
> > +   amd64 => "/usr/local/lib/xen/boot/pv-grub-x86_64.gz"
> > +    };
> 
> I wonder, though, whether this knowledge about arch name mappings
> could be combined with that from
> ts-kernel-build:config_create_config_sh and put in Osstest.pm or
> somewhere.

As in some sort of Osstest::arch_params{PvGrub}, {LinuxDefconfg},
{LinuxKernelImage} ?

I think so.



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