Re: [PATCH 3/4] Build grub.xen.

[Andrey Borzenkov]

В Thu, 12 Dec 2013 17:36:43 +0000
Colin Watson <address@hidden> пишет:

> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 05:45:30PM +0100, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> > No I meant full access to just obe of guest partitions. E.g. FTP may be
> > using separate partition and non-admins may have control over it. If system
> > has some kind of automatic user creation and /home is separate someone may
> > register as boot or grub and put grub.xen in his directory. If /tmp is on
> > separate partition and not in RAM then everybody can put grub.xen to
> > /tmp/grub/grub.xen
> 
> Oh, right.  Perhaps we could just look in a limited set of devices, e.g.
> (xen/xvda) or (xen/xvda1)?

Is passing it as argument acceptable? I'm afraid that no automagic is
going to work for all cases.

>                            I'm not very familiar with how
> multi-partition Xen guests are typically set up.  How is the root
> partition generally designated at the moment?
> 

As I understand it is passed as argument to kernel (i.e. in VM
definition) or embedded in initrd as usual.