although i am very new to the xen project, this approach makes good sense to me. consistent with the use of files within /etc/sysconfig and very predictable and sensible behavior. also seems like it is a good base to build from when adding future features. is it ready yet :} r. > We need a way to do two things to /usr/bin/grub-bootxen.sh in Xen4CentOS. > > 1. Automate running it if xen (the package) and the xen kernel are > installed. But only if the user WANTS to run it. > > 2. Allow users to automatically modify the variables passed into the > xen.gz line (that is, more or less memory, add console settings, etc.) > If you look at the current script, "--mbargs=dom0_mem=1024M,max:1024M > loglvl=all guest_loglvl=all" is hard coded in as the only option for the > xen.gz line. > > While doing that we also still want to preserve the ability to run that > kernel in other places than just for xen dom0 setups. > > Here is how I propose we do that. > > Currently the /usr/bin/grub-bootxen.sh file is in centos-release-xen ... > that is a good place as it allows us to use a different file in > different major versions of CentOS (so the file in 7 can be different > than the file in 6, but still use the same auxiliary files, etc). > > So, what we can do is setup a file in /etc/sysconfig/ (probably from the > xen package) that we call xen-boot or xen-kernel, etc. In this file we > put some variables like these: -- /*************************************************************************/ Russ Gritzo email: rgritzo at gmail.com /usr/games/gfortune: I know engineers. They love to change things. - Dr. McCoy /**************************************************************************/