[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] Rumprun based upstream QEMU stubdom status update
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:45:13AM +0000, Wei Liu wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 11:16:47PM -0500, Eric Shelton wrote: > [...] > > > > > I discussed with Stefano and Anthony to reassess Linux-based stubdom, > > > with all the issues mentioned above, if we narrow down the scope of > > > the project -- ignore BSD support for now, integrate build with > > > Raisin, no distros integration -- it can actually be done within a > > > finite time frame. > > > > > > Here are some issues with the existing patch series: > > > > > > 1. It's using Dracut build image, which is Redhat-centric. > > > > > > > That issue was raised before, but I'm not sure how much it really is. > > FWIW, I was using my updated version of Anthony's work on a Gentoo system, > > and encountered no issues. Is there a Linux distribution that we know > > dracut does not work on? It would be helpful to know. Although I have not > > really dug into dracut, it seemed to be effective for our purposes > > (collecting the libraries that need to be included in the Linux image for > > QEMU), and I'd rather not recreate dracut or part of dracut if we don't > > need to. > > > > I can't recollect previous objections. If we know dracut is packaged in > most major distributions then I don't have objection to it. > > Currently in Anthony's patch set, dracut is downloaded and built. That's > not ideal. To integrate with Raisin, the only viable way is to install > packaged Dracut -- building the tool to build image itself is not > acceptable to me. The only things that is use from dracut is dracut-install, I think. It copies a binary and the libraries that the binary depends on into a directory. I guess this could be replaced by a script if using tools available in distros is an issue. -- Anthony PERARD _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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