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 10:52:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5497E9DB.4040801@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5497E72B.20507@gmail.com>
On 22/12/2014 10:40, Zhang Haoyu wrote:
>> 2) the FAT driver is not free, which prevents distribution in Fedora and
>> several other distributions
>>
> Sorry, I cannot follow you,
> the "FAT" mentioned above means FAT filesystem?
> what's the relationship between OVMF and FAT?
>
> I want to use OVMF to enable UEFI to support GPT partition for P2V scenario.
Yes, I mean FAT filesystem.
The EFI system partition (the one with BOOTX64.EFI) is FAT. The
filesystem driver is not free, and without the driver you cannot boot a
UEFI system. So Fedora and other distributions that do not allow
non-free or patent-encumbered software cannot distribute a useful OVMF
build.
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 10:52:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5497E9DB.4040801@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5497E72B.20507@gmail.com>
On 22/12/2014 10:40, Zhang Haoyu wrote:
>> 2) the FAT driver is not free, which prevents distribution in Fedora and
>> several other distributions
>>
> Sorry, I cannot follow you,
> the "FAT" mentioned above means FAT filesystem?
> what's the relationship between OVMF and FAT?
>
> I want to use OVMF to enable UEFI to support GPT partition for P2V scenario.
Yes, I mean FAT filesystem.
The EFI system partition (the one with BOOTX64.EFI) is FAT. The
filesystem driver is not free, and without the driver you cannot boot a
UEFI system. So Fedora and other distributions that do not allow
non-free or patent-encumbered software cannot distribute a useful OVMF
build.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-22 9:52 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 [this message]
2014-12-22 9:52 ` 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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