Add an optional group ("grub") for the guestfs_grub_install API.

This also improves the documentation for this call, pointing out
several pitfalls in using it.

This unfortunately breaks existing callers that might use
guestfs_grub_install without checking for this new group.

diff --git a/daemon/grub.c b/daemon/grub.c
index f394eef..c61f9df 100644 (file)
--- a/daemon/grub.c
+++ b/daemon/grub.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* libguestfs - the guestfsd daemon
- * Copyright (C) 2009 Red Hat Inc.
+ * Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Red Hat Inc.
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -24,6 +24,13 @@
 
 #include "daemon.h"
 #include "actions.h"
+#include "optgroups.h"
+
+int
+optgroup_grub_available (void)
+{
+  return prog_exists ("grub-install");
+}
 
 int
 do_grub_install (const char *root, const char *device)

diff --git a/generator/generator_actions.ml b/generator/generator_actions.ml
index a924d87..49963bc 100644 (file)
--- a/generator/generator_actions.ml
+++ b/generator/generator_actions.ml
@@ -3013,7 +3013,7 @@ or growing unnecessarily.
 See also: C<guestfs_zero_device>, C<guestfs_scrub_device>,
 C<guestfs_is_zero_device>");
 
-  ("grub_install", (RErr, [Pathname "root"; Device "device"], []), 86, [],
+  ("grub_install", (RErr, [Pathname "root"; Device "device"], []), 86, [Optional "grub"],
    (* See:
     * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484986
     * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479760
@@ -3023,12 +3023,32 @@ C<guestfs_is_zero_device>");
        ["write"; "/boot/grub/device.map"; "(hd0) /dev/vda"];
        ["grub_install"; "/"; "/dev/vda"];
        ["is_dir"; "/boot"]])],
-   "install GRUB",
+   "install GRUB 1",
    "\
-This command installs GRUB (the Grand Unified Bootloader) on
+This command installs GRUB 1 (the Grand Unified Bootloader) on
 C<device>, with the root directory being C<root>.
 
-Note: If grub-install reports the error
+Notes:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+There is currently no way in the API to install grub2, which
+is used by most modern Linux guests.  It is possible to run
+the grub2 command from the guest, although see the
+caveats in L<guestfs(3)/RUNNING COMMANDS>.
+
+=item *
+
+This uses C<grub-install> from the host.  Unfortunately grub is
+not always compatible with itself, so this only works in rather
+narrow circumstances.  Careful testing with each guest version
+is advisable.
+
+=item *
+
+If grub-install reports the error
 \"No suitable drive was found in the generated device map.\"
 it may be that you need to create a C</boot/grub/device.map>
 file first that contains the mapping between grub device names
@@ -3037,7 +3057,9 @@ a file containing:
 
  (hd0) /dev/vda
 
-replacing C</dev/vda> with the name of the installation device.");
+replacing C</dev/vda> with the name of the installation device.
+
+=back");
 
   ("cp", (RErr, [Pathname "src"; Pathname "dest"], []), 87, [],
    [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (