On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 01:46:08PM +0100, Tobias Soppa wrote:
> Dear Richard,
> 
> Sorry for bothering, but I didn't find another way to ask a question. 
> 
> Maybe you can point me to a chat or forum to receive support? I am not
> sure whether I should use the libguestfs mailing list to send my
> problem it to everyone?

You can send any questions to [email protected] (without
needing to subscribe).  Or we're on IRC #guestfs on Libera.

> For days I'm trying to boot from virt-p2v-make-disk made USB thumbdrive
> but was never able to boot from it.
> 
> I did produce several images in different ways and with different Linux
> distributions, but the thumb drive is never bootable - not on a
> physical machine, nor via Ventoy.
>
> It works in QEMU though, but I need it running on a physical machine. I
> need to use (Secure) UEFI for booting and this works with any other
> disk image.

Probably UEFI is the problem here - in fact I doubt somehow that
we support it at all.  Is it possible to turn it off and/or
use the CMS module?

> Maybe because these discs are delivered with ISO filesystem and not as
> .IMG images? I feel I terribly miss something here.

We probably ought to deliver P2V as a UEFI binary, one day.

Rich.

> Any hint how to proceed would be very much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Tobi
> 

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