[vfio-users] Using a physical disk in QEMU

Patrick O'Callaghan poc at usb.ve
Sun Oct 22 13:27:40 UTC 2017


On Sun, 2017-10-22 at 10:53 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sat, 2017-10-21 at 16:43 -0700, Nick S wrote:
> > Can you at least boot via this UEFI screen if you select the necessary
> > device? or does it complain?
> 
> My knowledge of UEFI is so limited that I haven't even got that far. I
> get the menu with a bunch of devices but don't know how to proceed. As
> I mentioned I did actually manage to do this some time in the past, but
> didn't make any notes because from then on it just worked. I assume
> that on this occasion the OVMF emulated EEPROM is still set to the
> former (Linux raw file) drive and just needs to be changed.

I should point out that the UEFI screen shows only block devices, no
\EFI directory. Is this salvagable or will I have to reinstall Windows?
 Note that this is the exact same drive that boots correctly on the
physical host, and was created by cloning the original Linux raw file,
including all its partitions, using a backup program under Windows.

poc




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