On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 06:30:38PM +0100, Tom Hughes via devel wrote: > On 05/04/2022 15:52, Ben Cotton wrote: > > >* There is no migration story from Legacy BIOS to UEFI - > >repartitioning effectively mandates a reinstall. As a result, we > >don’t drop support for existing Legacy BIOS systems yet, just new > >installations. > > This is where I have a problem with this, the fact that there is > no upgrade path - virtually my entire installed base of Fedora is > running legacy BIOS and not being able to upgrade them will be > something of a headache. > > Is it actually true though? You need to be able to find some space > for an EFI partition but assuming that can be done is there some > other reason you can't migrate from BIOS to UEFI booting? virt-v2v used to be able to do this. We actually removed support because it was very convoluted and difficult to maintain. (Note the support didn't cope with dm_crypt at all because it's not that common inside VMs). Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
