From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49976) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y2zIf-0000Ey-Sk for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2014 04:29:18 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y2zIa-00012e-8F for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2014 04:29:13 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:54913) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y2zIa-00012G-1A for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2014 04:29:08 -0500 Message-ID: <5497E45A.6080002@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 10:28:58 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <5497BC9F.6020908@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5497BC9F.6020908@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Does kvm friendly support GPT? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Zhang Haoyu , qemu-devel , kvm-devel 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