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Love the comment by "z". :)

The people working on this are sharp, for sure.

But I will never think of VM's as a path to "security".

Xen is useful for a variety of purposes (including resiliency, which can help if you are hacked), but I'll never rely on it for "security".

Curious what bootloader they are using for the Xen kernels.

[kyboren]

GRUB2, and optionally tboot for "anti evil-maid" (http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/09/anti-evil-mai...).

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Can the user use their own choice of bootloader (besides those two)?

The bootloader I use can boot Xen kernels; no need for GRUB2. Is the Qube boot process described somewhere?

[kyboren]

I don't see why not in theory, but in practice GRUB2 is the only available option out-of-the-box. I'm curious why you're so interested in this, though. Care to explain your ostensible desire for an alternative bootloader?

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I just like the one I have been using.

I understand it reasonably well and am hesitant to switch.

I have tried others and have not been impressed.

I am a connoiseur of bootloaders I guess.

It's an important program, maybe the most important one.

Based on my limited knowledge of other computer users, I believe we all have what we consider a "trusted" program that does some task for us over and over again. We come to rely on it and appreciate it (for our own idiosyncratic reasons). We are hesitant to switch to something else.

For me, that program is my bootloader.

[sept]

Could you share the name of your trusted, Xen-aware bootloader? Is it something other than syslinux or uboot (ARM)?

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For x86, it is something other than those two.