On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 10:36 AM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 10:03 AM Jared Dominguez <jaredz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 4:51 AM Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski < > dominik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> On Wednesday, 06 April 2022 at 21:35, Jared Dominguez wrote: > >> > On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 2:26 PM Michael Catanzaro < > mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx> > >> > wrote: > >> > > >> > > On Wed, Apr 6 2022 at 01:57:00 PM -0400, Neal Gompa > >> > > <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > > > Moving past the Big Three(tm), the actual > >> > > > cloud providers that matter from a Fedora context are the smaller > >> > > > outfits that principally serve Linux users. These are companies > like > >> > > > DigitalOcean, Linode (Akamai), Hetzner, VexxHost, and others who > >> > > > graciously do offer Fedora Linux in their platforms. All of their > >> > > > virtualization platforms are BIOS only right now, and getting > them to > >> > > > switch requires them to uplift their platforms to support UEFI in > the > >> > > > first place. > >> > > >> > This seems like a strong assumption to me considering that aside from > the > >> > largest cloud providers (with whom Red Hat is directly working with > on UEFI > >> > boot features and bug reports), cloud providers are using > off-the-shelf > >> > hypervisors that support UEFI boot. > >> > >> OVH is not providing UEFI boot option at this time. I'd argue they are > >> a large hosting provider. > > > > > > Looks like they are using vSphere, which supports UEFI VMs. The same is > true for KVM, Xen and bhyve, so it's more about what feature set cloud > providers using these hypervisors are choosing to turn on. > > > > OVHcloud is OpenStack based: > > https://www.theregister.com/2019/04/29/ovh_adds_bare_metal_fighters_to_its_roster_looking_to_challenge_the_us_cloud_dominance/ > > However, OpenStack's UEFI support is seemingly broken. For example, > the OpenStack deployment I use at work fail to boot UEFI VMs when I > set the appropriate flags, which have existed since OpenStack Mitaka > (we're testing on Ussuri right now). According to internal research, > it *may* be fixed in an upcoming OpenStack release, but no one is > sure... >
