On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 05:58:46PM +0000, Wei Liu wrote: > > Ian has been busy writing the sidecar script and Roger and I have been > working on cleaning up the branch. We want to post a new version as > soon as possible (tomorrow or even tonight).
Ian, Let me know if you need any help with the sidecar script. Generally it's straightforward enough to build so I'm sure you won't have any trouble. Here's one that I used for local testing on my laptop in a CentOS-ish chroot (we have other bits responsible for this in EC2). Please excuse the cruft, including the use of legacy GRUB. ---------------------- 8< ------------------- #!/bin/bash if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then echo "usage: $0 xen.gz kernel.gz [initrd.img]" exit 1 fi if [ $# -eq 3 ]; then INITRD=$2 fi if [ ! -f /usr/share/grub/x86_64-redhat/stage2_eltorito ]; then echo "/usr/share/grub/x86_64-redhat/stage2_eltorito not found." echo "Install grub RPM?" exit 1 fi if [ ! -f $1 ]; then echo "$1 is not a file" exit 1 fi if [ ! -f $2 ]; then echo "$2 is not a file" exit 1 fi TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d) cat >> $TMPDIR/menu.lst <<EOF serial --unit=0 --speed=115200 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1 terminal serial timeout=0 default=0 hiddenmenu title Vixen root (cd) kernel /boot/xen.gz loglvl=all guest_loglvl=all com1=115200,8n1 console=com1,qemu console_timestamps=datems conswitch=b module /boot/kernel.gz root=/dev/sda1 ro console=hvc0 4 EOF if [ x"$INITRD" != x ]; then echo "module /boot/initrd.img" >> $TMPDIR/menu.lst INITRD_GRAFT=boot/initrd.img=$INITRD fi cp $TMPDIR/menu.lst $TMPDIR/grub.conf cp /usr/share/grub/x86_64-redhat/stage2_eltorito $TMPDIR/ mkisofs -output vixen.iso \ -input-charset utf-8 \ -joliet -rational-rock \ -translation-table \ -eltorito-boot boot/grub/stage2_eltorito \ -no-emul-boot \ -boot-load-size 4 \ -boot-info-table \ -graft-points \ boot/grub/stage2_eltorito=$TMPDIR/stage2_eltorito \ boot/xen.gz=$1 \ boot/kernel.gz=$2 \ $INITRD_GRAFT \ boot/grub/menu.lst=$TMPDIR/menu.lst \ boot/grub/grub.conf=$TMPDIR/grub.conf rm -rf $TMPDIR ---------------------- 8< ------------------- Everything but ancient xend based Xen can sideload while avoiding a PV domU block device by passing in device_model_args like this: ... boot="d" device_model_args=[ '-drive', 'file=/path/to/vixen.iso,media=cdrom,format=raw' ] ... For xend versions we craft a qemu-dm wrapper script and change device_model to use it. --msw _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel