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Re: Possible ports
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Samuel Thibault |
Subject: |
Re: Possible ports |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:13:26 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 |
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, le Tue 30 Mar 2010 00:39:31 +0200, a
écrit :
> 6) Paravirtualized environments are often used for security reasons. In
> this context it's preferable to have a bootloader inside virtual machine
> rather than outside. Some paravirtualized environments are carbon copy
> of some real machines. Those need no special support but other platforms do
> Interesting platforms: xen
> Interesting ISAs: i386, x86_64, ppc, ia64
It is worth noting that in the case of Xen, GRUB1 was already ported and
is called "PV-GRUB" in the Xen source, so much of that work could be
re-used (in particular the kexec mechanism to switch from the GRUB PV
guest to the booted PV kernel).
Samuel
- Possible ports, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, 2010/03/29
- Re: Possible ports,
Samuel Thibault <=