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Re: [Qemu-devel] Does kvm friendly support GPT?
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Zhang Haoyu |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Does kvm friendly support GPT? |
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Mon, 22 Dec 2014 17:59:45 +0800 |
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On 2014/12/22 17:52, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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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.
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> Yes, I mean FAT filesystem.
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> 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.
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Paolo,thanks.
> Paolo
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