On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 02:04:44PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > 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&gt; > --- > 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 Reviewed-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com&gt;

A much simpler change than I thought it would be :-)