On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 05:35:21PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > 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.
I made a good faith attempt to test this, but my attempts to get Windows installed failed at the first step. I don't have an optical drive (who does?) and the MSFT tool that I tried for converting the MSDN-supplied Win7 ISO into a USB key resulted only in USB keys that did not boot at all. It'll need to wait until I find an optical drive. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/