From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Does kvm friendly  support GPT?
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 10:28:58 +0100
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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

Paolo