* Andrea Bolognani (abolo...@redhat.com) wrote: > On Thu, 2018-06-07 at 14:49 +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > Including the nvram and efi makes me nervous; but I can see why together > > they might work. However, there's no guarantee that EFI has been tested > > with the QEMU it's used on and ... that could be trouble. > > If the QEMU binary doesn't support EFI, then a guest expecting > EFI won't be able to start regardless of where the EFI ROM came > from.
No, I mean if the QEMU doesn't support that *particular* EFI. > > Also, if we're going to start including the EFI rom then that would have > > to be migrated with the VM so that after a restart on a different host > > it's still using the right ROM that's compatible with it's varfile. > > That's a problem that needs to be addressed anyway, because even > as it is now you could easily find yourself trying and failing > to migrate a guest between two hosts that have different and > incompatible EFI ROMs installed. True; although I was working on the basis that vendors who cared about migration compatibility would couple the EFI versions with machine types to ensure that the variable data didn't become incompatible. Dave > -- > Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization -- Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilb...@redhat.com / Manchester, UK
