On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 9:50 AM, J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > > Sounds like pvgrub. I never looked into setting that up, afaiui, it mounts the > guest filesystem, grabs the grub.cfg, grabs the kernel listed there, umounts, > then boots the guest. >
Indeed, that is exactly the behavior Amazon has, and I'm pretty sure their "logs" show pvgrub in the output. >From their standpoint it probably gives them a really easy way to make guest filesystems self-contained without the need to tweak the hypervisor environment to make each guest run. -- Rich