From: Zhang Haoyu Subject: Re: Does kvm friendly support GPT? Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 17:40:59 +0800 Message-ID: <5497E72B.20507@gmail.com> References: <5497BC9F.6020908@gmail.com> <5497E45A.6080002@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Paolo Bonzini , qemu-devel , kvm-devel Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f67.google.com ([209.85.220.67]:59754 "EHLO mail-pa0-f67.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753733AbaLVJlH (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Dec 2014 04:41:07 -0500 Received: by mail-pa0-f67.google.com with SMTP id eu11so4232214pac.10 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2014 01:41:07 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <5497E45A.6080002@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 2014/12/22 17:28, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > 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 >