File virtinst-pvgrub2-bootloader.patch of Package virt-manager

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File virtinst-pvgrub2-bootloader.patch of Package virt-manager (Revision c028b6a2e0495ad39e2ff6c57f7a0ba8)

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Reference: bnc#863821
grub.xen is required to boot PV VMs that use the BTRFS filesystem.
This patch forces the use of grub.xen (instead of using pygrub) for
suse distros SLE12GA, openSUSE 13.2, and newer.
Index: virt-manager-2.1.0/virtinst/installer.py
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--- virt-manager-2.1.0.orig/virtinst/installer.py
+++ virt-manager-2.1.0/virtinst/installer.py
@@ -303,6 +303,20 @@ class Installer(object):
         install_xml = None
         if self.has_install_phase():
             install_xml = self._get_install_xml(guest)
+        if (guest.os.is_xenpv() and
+            not guest.os.kernel):
+            os_ver = guest.osinfo.name
+            if guest.os.arch != 'x86_64' or os_ver.startswith("sles9") or \
+               os_ver.startswith("sles10") or os_ver.startswith("sled10") or \
+               os_ver.startswith("opensuse10") or os_ver.startswith("opensuse11"):
+                guest.bootloader = "pygrub"
+            else:
+                guest.bootloader = None
+                self._install_kernel = "/usr/lib/grub2/x86_64-xen/grub.xen"
+                self._install_initrd = None
+                self.extraargs = None
+                logging.info("Using grub.xen to boot guest")
+                self._alter_bootconfig(guest)
         final_xml = guest.get_xml()
 
         logging.debug("Generated install XML: %s",

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File virtinst-pvgrub2-bootloader.patch of Package virt-manager (Revision c028b6a2e0495ad39e2ff6c57f7a0ba8)

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