On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 06:30:38PM +0100, Tom Hughes via devel wrote:
On 05/04/2022 15:52, Ben Cotton wrote:
>* There is no migration story from Legacy BIOS to UEFI -
>repartitioning effectively mandates a reinstall. As a result, we
>don’t drop support for existing Legacy BIOS systems yet, just new
>installations.
This is where I have a problem with this, the fact that there is
no upgrade path - virtually my entire installed base of Fedora is
running legacy BIOS and not being able to upgrade them will be
something of a headache.
Is it actually true though? You need to be able to find some space
for an EFI partition but assuming that can be done is there some
other reason you can't migrate from BIOS to UEFI booting?
virt-v2v used to be able to do this. We actually removed support
because it was very convoluted and difficult to maintain. (Note the
support didn't cope with dm_crypt at all because it's not that common
inside VMs).
Rich.
--
Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat
http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
Read my programming and virtualization blog:
http://rwmj.wordpress.com
virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a
live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests.
http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v