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. > While I was looking at Laszlo's patches just now, I realized that I > have an AMD box that uses UEFI (actually - it uses CSM right now, but > I think I can make it boot using pure UEFI). I'll have to swap some > disks around but I may be able to try this out today or tomorrow if I > can find a spare hard disk. That would be awesome, yes. Thanks! Cheers Laszlo
