On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 4:10 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 04:05:05PM +0200, Felipe Borges wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > We recently landed EFI support in GNOME Boxes where we create guests > > with "firmware = efi" by default when libosinfo reports that the OS > > supports it. This has worked great except for the regression with > > snapshots. Long story short, internal snapshots won't work with EFI, > > external snapshots won't allow our users to revert their domain to a > > certain snapshot. > > > > For this reason, the Boxes designers and I concluded that the best > > approach for us here would be to only create EFI guests for OSes that > > REQUIRE it. If an OS can still boot with the legacy "bios" we should > > go for it, since it maintains our Snapshot management functionality. > > > > The reason I am emailing libosinfo about this is to assess whether you > > folk would be open to having me adding <firmware arch="x86_64" > > type="bios"/> to the OSes that support it (some of them already state > > support for EFI). > > > > Since the API returns a list of Osinfo.Firmware objects, we won't need > > any more work on libosinfo side in order to implement what we need in > > Boxes. > > > > All in all, adding <firmware arch="x86_64" type="bios"/> to some OSes > > would be something you'd accept? > > Yes, I was pretty much expecting we would need to add such info at some > point. > > Might it be easier to ask which OS do NOT support BIOS ? > > IOW, should we blindly add it to essentially every single OS, except for > the very few known to not support it any more. Oh! I should have read the whole thread before answering. Well, +1 for this approach. Best Regards, -- Fabiano Fidêncio
