[libvirt] [PATCH] libxl: do not use hardcoded pygrub path

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:15:21PM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> On 08/19/2014 10:33 AM, Álvaro López García wrote:
> >Hi Daniel,
> >
> >On Tue 19 Aug 2014 (14:32), Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >>On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 01:54:12PM +0200, Alvaro Lopez Garcia wrote:
> >>>According to the Xen documentation the full path was only needed
> >>>for versions prior to 4.1: "Note: For older versions of Xen Project
> >>>software (4.1 or earlier) you need to know where in the filesystem
> >>>pygrub lies. (...) Newer versions of the toolstack know how to look
> >>>for the path themselves." [1]
> >>Regardless of whether they know how to find the path, it is expected
> >>that the libvirt XML is including/requiring the full path. So I'm
> >>not really considering this a bug that needs fixing
> >- Is it required that all the libvirt XML files needing a bootloader
> >   specify one? or
> 
> No.  But if you don't specify one, you get /usr/bin/pygrub, which is similar
> to xend's behavior.
> 
> >- If the bootloader is specified, then it has to be a full path?
> 
> No.

Actually from the XML point ofo view, the <bootloader> element *is*
expected to be an absolute file path.


Regards,
Daniel
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