From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paolo Bonzini Subject: Re: Does kvm friendly support GPT? Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 10:52:27 +0100 Message-ID: <5497E9DB.4040801@redhat.com> References: <5497BC9F.6020908@gmail.com> <5497E45A.6080002@redhat.com> <5497E72B.20507@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Zhang Haoyu , qemu-devel , kvm-devel Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:35660 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753777AbaLVJwf (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Dec 2014 04:52:35 -0500 In-Reply-To: <5497E72B.20507@gmail.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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