From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Zhang Haoyu <zhhy.zhanghaoyu@gmail.com>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Does kvm friendly support GPT?
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 10:28:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5497E45A.6080002@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5497BC9F.6020908@gmail.com>
On 22/12/2014 07:39, 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.
OVMF is stable. The main issues are:
1) tools support (libvirt and above), which is being worked on
2) the FAT driver is not free, which prevents distribution in Fedora and
several other distributions
Paolo
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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Zhang Haoyu <zhhy.zhanghaoyu@gmail.com>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Does kvm friendly support GPT?
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 10:28:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5497E45A.6080002@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5497BC9F.6020908@gmail.com>
On 22/12/2014 07:39, 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.
OVMF is stable. The main issues are:
1) tools support (libvirt and above), which is being worked on
2) the FAT driver is not free, which prevents distribution in Fedora and
several other distributions
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-22 9:29 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 [this message]
2014-12-22 9:28 ` 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
2015-01-03 0:43 ` Richard W.M. Jones
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2015-01-12 2:35 Zhang Haoyu
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