From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
To: Zhang Haoyu <zhhy.zhanghaoyu@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Does kvm friendly support GPT?
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 00:43:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150103004354.GC9693@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5497BC9F.6020908@gmail.com>
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 02:39:27PM +0800, Zhang Haoyu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I perform P2V from native servers with win2008 to kvm vm,
> some cases failed due to the physical disk was using GPT for partition,
> and QEMU doesn't support GPT by default.
>
> And, I see in below site that OVMF can be used to enable UEFI to support GPT,
> http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/OVMF
>
> But, it seems that OVMF is not stable enough for kvm.
I guess you mean EFI rather than just GPT?
FWIW virt-p2v has some support for EFI, but it's very hairy
and not that well tested. It tries to modify the guest
to use BIOS for booting.
I'm waiting for good, free EFI support in qemu and then I
can remove such hacks.
Rich.
--
Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com
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http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v
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From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
To: Zhang Haoyu <zhhy.zhanghaoyu@gmail.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Does kvm friendly support GPT?
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 00:43:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150103004354.GC9693@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5497BC9F.6020908@gmail.com>
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 02:39:27PM +0800, Zhang Haoyu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I perform P2V from native servers with win2008 to kvm vm,
> some cases failed due to the physical disk was using GPT for partition,
> and QEMU doesn't support GPT by default.
>
> And, I see in below site that OVMF can be used to enable UEFI to support GPT,
> http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/OVMF
>
> But, it seems that OVMF is not stable enough for kvm.
I guess you mean EFI rather than just GPT?
FWIW virt-p2v has some support for EFI, but it's very hairy
and not that well tested. It tries to modify the guest
to use BIOS for booting.
I'm waiting for good, free EFI support in qemu and then I
can remove such hacks.
Rich.
--
Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com
virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a
live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests.
http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-03 0:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-22 6:39 Does kvm friendly support GPT? Zhang Haoyu
2014-12-22 6:39 ` [Qemu-devel] " Zhang Haoyu
2014-12-22 9:28 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-12-22 9:28 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2014-12-22 9:40 ` Zhang Haoyu
2014-12-22 9:40 ` [Qemu-devel] " Zhang Haoyu
2014-12-22 9:52 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-12-22 9:52 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2014-12-22 9:59 ` Zhang Haoyu
2014-12-22 9:59 ` [Qemu-devel] " Zhang Haoyu
2015-01-03 0:43 ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]
2015-01-03 0:43 ` Richard W.M. Jones
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2015-01-12 2:35 Zhang Haoyu
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