On 09/30/22 14:16, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 02:04:44PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>> UEFI RHEL-7 guests cannot be successfully converted from VMWare without
>> including the BOCHS DRM driver -- Plymouth ("rhgb") crashes during early
>> boot in the converted domain.
>>
>> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2131123
>> Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <[email protected]>
>> ---
>> convert/convert_linux.ml | 12 +++++++++---
>> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/convert/convert_linux.ml b/convert/convert_linux.ml
>> index b8e9ad15e22d..5bfdac5aa6d9 100644
>> --- a/convert/convert_linux.ml
>> +++ b/convert/convert_linux.ml
>> @@ -731,8 +731,13 @@ let convert (g : G.guestfs) source inspect
>> keep_serial_console _ =
>> match kernel.ki_initrd with
>> | None -> ()
>> | Some initrd ->
>> - (* Enable the basic virtio modules in the kernel. *)
>> - (* Also forcibly include the "xts" module; see RHBZ#1658126. *)
>> + (* Enable the basic virtio modules in the kernel.
>> + *
>> + * Also forcibly include the "xts" module; see RHBZ#1658126.
>> + *
>> + * Include the BOCHS DRM paravirt video driver; see RHBZ#2131123.
>> This
>> + * driver is known under two names -- "bochs-drm" and "bochs".
>> + *)
>> let modules =
>> let modules =
>> (* The order of modules here is deliberately the same as the
>> @@ -743,7 +748,8 @@ let convert (g : G.guestfs) source inspect
>> keep_serial_console _ =
>> *)
>> List.filter (fun m -> List.mem m kernel.ki_modules)
>> [ "virtio"; "virtio_ring"; "virtio_blk";
>> - "virtio_scsi"; "virtio_net"; "virtio_pci"; "xts" ]
>> in
>> + "virtio_scsi"; "virtio_net"; "virtio_pci"; "xts";
>> + "bochs-drm"; "bochs" ] in
>
> Reviewed-by: Richard W.M. Jones <[email protected]>
Thanks!
Commit aa69d64cd452.
> A much simpler change than I thought it would be :-)
Indeed :)
Laszlo
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