Re: pvhgrub docs

[David Hill <davehill@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2021-10-07 5:09 a.m., Chris Myers wrote:

Out of curiosity, could someone point me to some documentation for pvhgrub? Searching for

"pvhgrub" xen

returns very few results.

Thanks! 

On Mon, Oct 4, 2021, 9:09 PM Chris Myers <chrismyers81@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks! I'll check that out.

Up to this point I've always just done in-place upgrades of everything (been running Xen PV domu's for about 7 years now) and have just followed with that old way because it generally just worked (with a few nuances.)

On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 8:38 PM Andy Smith <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 08:35:35PM -0500, Chris Myers wrote:
> Out of curiosity is there a better/preferred way of handling it so that I
> don't need to remember to keep them in sync every time I do a kernel
> upgrade?

> > Once you've got to the bottom of this I recommend switching to
> > pvhgrub booting to do away with that class of problems…

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Hi Chris,

pvhgrub is new to me, but to understand the transition away from pygrub, I found pvgrub2 documentation helpful (although some of it is a bit dated):

https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/PvGrub2