On 09/19/2013 06:53 AM, Greg Woodbury wrote: >>> >>> However, there's one corner case to consider. Due to some licensing >>> issues we still can't test UEFI in VMs. > Am I being dense, or missing something? > What "licensing issues"? > > I have a new Intel "Haswell" (i5-4430/z87) achitecture machine and do > both VM and bare-metal testing, is there something I should be aware of > and add tot the testing procedures? Given the current state of the art, all known UEFI implementations for VMs require the use of a FAT driver whose license forbids redistribution for general purpose use, which means Fedora cannot ship it. You can test UEFI on bare metal, and you can test UEFI on VMs if you download the software and build it yourself, but Fedora cannot ask you to test UEFI on VMs until someone steps forward and writes a new license-unencumbered FAT driver. For more interesting reading, see: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-05/msg04762.html -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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