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Re: [Qemu-devel] Does kvm friendly support GPT?
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Zhang Haoyu |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Does kvm friendly support GPT? |
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Mon, 22 Dec 2014 17:40:59 +0800 |
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On 2014/12/22 17:28, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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> 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
>
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.
Thanks,
Zhang Haoyu
> Paolo
>