Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Bootloader configuration

[Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 04:47:03PM +0000, John Levon wrote:
> 4) The concept of "retrieve a file from this fs image" seems to be generically
>    useful outside of the Xen project context; forcing a Python API for this
>    functionality seems a lot less general than it should be.

Surely this is somewhere that Python can be very useful!  Support for
filesystem reading is available in C libraries, and munging a lot of C
interfaces together into a command-line tool is one of the things Python
does best.

In general I agree with your ideas; my own patches to XM and pygrub for
this were going along these lines, if not quite general enough.  In the
long term though, in-domU support is going to be the best way of doing
this, specially for virtual hosting and "packaged" VM images.

Tim.

-- 
Tim Deegan                           (My opinions, not the University's)
Systems Research Group
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory

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