Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

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W dniu 30.06.2020 o 16:27, Daniel P. Berrangé pisze:

> KVM virt on aarch64 and x86 can support EFI via AVMF / OVMF firmware
> built from the edk2 project from a technical POV.
> 
> The first challenge will be that many mgmt tools still default to
> using legacy BIOS when deploying guest OS. We've been trying to
> make it easier for mgmt apps to "do the right thing" by having
> libosinfo record metadata about whether each guest OS supports
> legacy BIOS, EFI or both. ie we want the mgmt apps to just pick
> EFI if they see the OS doesn't support legacy BIOS, instead of
> requiring users to manually tell them to use EFI.

> So I can't say I'm thrilled about a future that depends on EFI for
> virt, but I'm resigned to the fact this is the direction the world
> is taking. So we're not likely to have any choice and will have to
> work to mitigate any downsides it brings.

Can we also default to Q35 and forget that i440fx existed?

Do all the pain in one step.
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