[Libguestfs] resize: Preserve GPT GUID so we don't break EFI bootloaders (RHBZ#1189284)
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Thu Feb 5 12:00:19 UTC 2015
On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 11:14:33AM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote:
> On Thursday 05 February 2015 08:40:37 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > virt-resize didn't preserve the per-partition GPT GUID.
> >
> > Now that guests using UEFI are becoming common (basically it's the
> > default on aarch64) we need to take into account that sometimes the
> > partition GUID is used by the bootloader NVRAM variables to identify
> > the boot partition, so it must be preserved across resize.
> >
> > This bug caused the 'virt-builder --size' option to fail on aarch64.
>
> LGTM.
Thanks - pushed.
Rich.
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