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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 10:28:58 +0100 |
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On 22/12/2014 07:39, Zhang Haoyu wrote:
> Hi,
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> 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.
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> And, I see in below site that OVMF can be used to enable UEFI to support GPT,
> http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/OVMF
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> 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