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Re: [Qemu-devel] Does kvm friendly support GPT?
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Does kvm friendly support GPT? |
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Mon, 22 Dec 2014 10:52:27 +0100 |
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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
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> Sorry, I cannot follow you,
> the "FAT" mentioned above means FAT filesystem?
> what's the relationship between OVMF and FAT?
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> 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