Re: [Qemu-devel] Does kvm friendly support GPT?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 02:39:27PM +0800, 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.

I guess you mean EFI rather than just GPT?

FWIW virt-p2v has some support for EFI, but it's very hairy
and not that well tested.  It tries to modify the guest
to use BIOS for booting.

I'm waiting for good, free EFI support in qemu and then I
can remove such hacks.

Rich.

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