UEFI RHEL-7 guests cannot be successfully converted from VMWare without
including the BOCHS DRM driver -- Plymouth ("rhgb") crashes during early
boot in the converted domain.
Bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2131123
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek(a)redhat.com>
---
convert/convert_linux.ml | 12 +++++++++---
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/convert/convert_linux.ml b/convert/convert_linux.ml
index b8e9ad15e22d..5bfdac5aa6d9 100644
--- a/convert/convert_linux.ml
+++ b/convert/convert_linux.ml
@@ -731,8 +731,13 @@ let convert (g : G.guestfs) source inspect keep_serial_console _ =
match kernel.ki_initrd with
| None -> ()
| Some initrd ->
- (* Enable the basic virtio modules in the kernel. *)
- (* Also forcibly include the "xts" module; see RHBZ#1658126. *)
+ (* Enable the basic virtio modules in the kernel.
+ *
+ * Also forcibly include the "xts" module; see RHBZ#1658126.
+ *
+ * Include the BOCHS DRM paravirt video driver; see RHBZ#2131123. This
+ * driver is known under two names -- "bochs-drm" and "bochs".
+ *)
let modules =
let modules =
(* The order of modules here is deliberately the same as the
@@ -743,7 +748,8 @@ let convert (g : G.guestfs) source inspect keep_serial_console _ =
*)
List.filter (fun m -> List.mem m kernel.ki_modules)
[ "virtio"; "virtio_ring";
"virtio_blk";
- "virtio_scsi"; "virtio_net";
"virtio_pci"; "xts" ] in
+ "virtio_scsi"; "virtio_net";
"virtio_pci"; "xts";
+ "bochs-drm"; "bochs" ] in
if modules <> [] then modules
else
(* Fallback copied from old virt-v2v. XXX Why not "ide"? *)