From: Zhang Haoyu <zhhy.zhanghaoyu@gmail.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.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 17:59:45 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5497EB91.9020301@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5497E9DB.4040801@redhat.com>
On 2014/12/22 17:52, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
>
> 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,thanks.
> Paolo
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-22 9:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-22 6:39 Does kvm friendly support GPT? Zhang Haoyu
2014-12-22 9:28 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-12-22 9:40 ` Zhang Haoyu
2014-12-22 9:52 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-12-22 9:59 ` Zhang Haoyu [this message]
2015-01-03 0:43 ` [Qemu-devel] " Richard W.M. Jones
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2015-01-12 2:35 Zhang Haoyu
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