From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59937) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aK6uZ-0004jC-1m for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 11:07:40 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aK6uU-0004Q7-Tv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 11:07:38 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:52380) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aK6uU-0004Q2-Oc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 11:07:34 -0500 Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 16:07:30 +0000 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Message-ID: <20160115160730.GA1766@redhat.com> References: <1452735417-5461-1-git-send-email-lersek@redhat.com> <20160114100359.GU1766@redhat.com> <5697730D.1090006@zoho.com> <20160114102324.GV1766@redhat.com> <5697CE49.9090005@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5697CE49.9090005@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] set the OEM fields in the RSDT and the FADT from the SLIC List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Laszlo Ersek Cc: Alex , Xiao Guangrong , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Shannon Zhao , Michael Tokarev , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paolo Bonzini , Igor Mammedov On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 05:35:21PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 01/14/16 11:23, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 01:06:05PM +0300, Alex wrote: > >> Richard, I just posted HW test results to > >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248758. > >> Should I do it here instead? > > > > I saw that. Testing a virt-p2v conversion is a lot more involved. It > > would involve something like this: > > > > (1) Install Win7 on a UEFI-based physical machine, ensuring that Win7 > > is using UEFI to boot (not CSM or BIOS). > > > > (2) Install a recent Fedora on a second machine (second machine may be > > a VM). 'dnf install virt-v2v' on this machine. > > > > (3) Boot virt-p2v ISO (http://oirase.annexia.org/virt-p2v/) on the > > first physical machine. Perform a P2V conversion > > (http://libguestfs.org/virt-p2v.1.html). > > > > (4) Boot the converted Win7 VM on the target qemu. Reproduce the > > original bug. We have never had the original bug reported to us by > > any customer. > > > > (5) Patch qemu on the target. > > > > (6) Boot virt-p2v ISO again, and perform a second conversion. > > > > (7) Verify that the bug (step 4) has been fixed. > > Very good description, thank you. I made a good faith attempt to test this, but my attempts to get Windows installed failed at the first step. I don't have an optical drive (who does?) and the MSFT tool that I tried for converting the MSDN-supplied Win7 ISO into a USB key resulted only in USB keys that did not boot at all. It'll need to wait until I find an optical drive. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/