Re: 2.6.16 changes (was: Re: preparing 2.6.15-7 and 2.6.16-rc3, take two)
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 02:17:08PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 01:33:26PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > What about having some kind of postinst script moving the image in the right
> > place instead ?
>
> There is no right place within a domain.
>
> > This is no different from a netbooted machine, or one using
> > NFSROOT.
>
> No. A normal netboot setup have both the kernel and the modules on the
> same machine.
Yeah, except the system resides somewhere exported by NFS, while the kernel
resides in /tftpboot, so you cannot usually boot such a system without
hand-moving stuff around, exactly the same as what you are seeing here.
> > Naturally, the difficulty, is to be able to move the kernel image from inside
> > the xen guest to the host system, which is not supposed to be possible, maybe
> > some kind of setup where the host system symlinks the images to the guest
> > system kernel or something ?
>
> No, the filesystems are orthogonal.
Ok.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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