Should install bootloader in vm instead of using host's grub

[Jamie Strandboge]

When the host uses grub2 (eg karmic host trying to build a Jaunty VM), it traces back with:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/vmbuilder", line 29, in <module>
    VMBuilder.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/VMBuilder/__init__.py", line 65, in run
    frontend.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/VMBuilder/plugins/cli/__init__.py", line 68, in run
    vm.create()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/VMBuilder/vm.py", line 483, in create
    self.install()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/VMBuilder/vm.py", line 416, in install
    self.distro.install_bootloader()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/VMBuilder/plugins/ubuntu/distro.py", line 164, in install_bootloader
    EOT''')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/VMBuilder/util.py", line 105, in run_cmd
    proc = subprocess.Popen(args, stdin=stdin_arg, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, env=proc_env)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 595, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 1092, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 4 09:01:43 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: python-vm-builder 0.11-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-4.23-generic
SourcePackage: vm-builder
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-4-generic i686

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Setting to confirmed, This is not an easy fix and grub and grub2 can run side by side apparently.

Regards
chuck

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

That's actually implemented; not sure since how long, but relatively recent.

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

(Only works with grub1 though; see bug 509609 for grub2 support).