On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 05:35:21PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
On 01/14/16 11:23, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 01:06:05PM +0300, Alex wrote:
Richard, I just posted HW test results to
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248758.
Should I do it here instead?
I saw that. Testing a virt-p2v conversion is a lot more involved. It
would involve something like this:
(1) Install Win7 on a UEFI-based physical machine, ensuring that Win7
is using UEFI to boot (not CSM or BIOS).
(2) Install a recent Fedora on a second machine (second machine may be
a VM). 'dnf install virt-v2v' on this machine.
(3) Boot virt-p2v ISO (http://oirase.annexia.org/virt-p2v/) on the
first physical machine. Perform a P2V conversion
(http://libguestfs.org/virt-p2v.1.html).
(4) Boot the converted Win7 VM on the target qemu. Reproduce the
original bug. We have never had the original bug reported to us by
any customer.
(5) Patch qemu on the target.
(6) Boot virt-p2v ISO again, and perform a second conversion.
(7) Verify that the bug (step 4) has been fixed.
Very good description, thank you.
I made a good faith attempt to test this, but my attempts to get
Windows installed failed at the first step. I don't have an optical
drive (who does?) and the MSFT tool that I tried for converting the
MSDN-supplied Win7 ISO into a USB key resulted only in USB keys that
did not boot at all. It'll need to wait until I find an optical
drive.
Rich.