On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 04:28:30PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > it's > > used because of a bad design, > > > It's not a bad design, it's the *right* design. Being able to rescue > a guest that can't boot without resorting to a rescue cd boot of the > guest vm is a worthwhile goal and this is part of that. The two > alternative designs (guest code in guest vm, guest code in host vm) > were both shown to be inferior designs (the first because the guest vm > might not be bootable and requires booting up the guest vm which is > highly undesirable if the user is simply attempting an offline > modification of the vm, the second because that's a huge gaping > security cluster fuck). It's a bad design because it asserts something (grub versions are compatible with each other) that isn't true (they're not). I don't have any idea how to solve this given the constraints that are being imposed, but this approach certainly isn't a solution. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
