Feature: UEFI support for guest VM

[ranger-r]

XS doesn't officially support it yet. But XEN hypervisor has experimental support since version 4.4.
Lack of UEFI guest support makes xen almost a legacy hypervisor :(

[Kalloritis]

I am unable to do a P2V of a Windows 10 system due to this- is there any work towards making this part of 7.4.2?

[stormi]

Hi. There's no work on our side on this subject at the moment, but we can try to help anyone who would like to work on that.

[tbone897]

I would really like to see UEFI support also.

[olivierlambert]

@tbone897 it's likely to be in XenServer 8.0, but also very very likely not Open Source. However, because it's very important, we'll implement it ourselves in XCP-ng too. This cost time and resources, but we believe that enough companies will take support to help us financially on that!

And yes, it's unpleasant to do things twice (once by Citrix and then us), but we have no choice since they decided to close all new features.

[john-arvid]

Is this possible to enable in xcp-ng? And will it solve the problem?
https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/OVMF

[john-arvid]

Looks like it is released now. But is it closed or open source?

https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-hypervisor/whats-new/experimental.html

[olivierlambert]

"It's a long story". Keep an eye on your inbox (if you registered on xcp-ng.org mailing list) or XCP-ng Forum, as soon we got enough elements, we'll tell you :)

[olivierlambert]

This will be available in XCP-ng 8.0 (and exposed in Xen Orchestra)

[magikmw]

Has this been actually done with XCP-ng 8.0? I may have missed it in the release notes.

[olivierlambert]

Yes. See https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2019/07/01/xcp-ng-8-0-rc

@stormi should we close it?