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To: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>, Alex <alex3kov@zoho.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Shannon Zhao <zhaoshenglong@huawei.com>, Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>

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.

> While I was looking at Laszlo's patches just now, I realized that I
> have an AMD box that uses UEFI (actually - it uses CSM right now, but
> I think I can make it boot using pure UEFI).  I'll have to swap some
> disks around but I may be able to try this out today or tomorrow if I
> can find a spare hard disk.

That would be awesome, yes. Thanks!

Cheers
Laszlo