grub / grub2 conflicts

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 02:51:40PM -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
> Oh, my mistake. That being beside the point, it pretty much means
> any VM created in a previous OS release won't work. In any case I
> totally disagree with your idea of security, as I mentioned at the
> time. It makes things worse, not better.

Not running random code from untrusted guests makes things worse?

> And that's still ignoring that grub1 needs to completely go away.

It's not going to completely go away until such guests completely go
away.  People use virtualization precisely because it allows them to
continue to run very old operating systems.  Or even supported ones
like RHEL 6 (using grub1 until 2017-2020).

Rich.

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