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Handle "Boot firmware" (BIOS or UEFI) when importing or exporting a VM (OVA) #8162

Open AtaxyaNetwork opened 4 days ago

AtaxyaNetwork commented 4 days ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I was playing with a Cisco appliance, shipped in the .ova format. While the import was successful, the VMs did not start, because the "Boot firmware" was in "BIOS" and not in "UEFI" mode. When I searched in the .ovf file (extracted from the .ova file), I saw this line:

<vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="firmware" vmw:value="efi" />

To confirm my theory, I created a UEFI VM, and exported it, and I saw that the UEFI parameter is missing, as the exporting tool does not take account of this parameter.

Describe the solution you'd like I would like XO to handle this line, so the VM is directly in "UEFI" mode after importing. With that, the users will not be confused to why their VM is not booting.

Describe alternatives you've considered Maybe a way to change the "Boot firmware" in the OVA menu before importing (see image), but ideally it's should be automatic image

Additional context Thank you for your hard work ! 🚀

Danp2 commented 3 days ago

This would be useful for the V2V process as well.

olivierlambert commented 3 days ago

I think V2V now correctly handles this (IIRC)

MrGrymReaper commented 3 days ago

Yes this would be helpful for me too! As many of the virtual appliances which get added to the XCP-ng hosts through Xen Orchestra, are now coming as UEFI. It's especially the ones which enable home use of dedicated servers for when playing multiplayer game hosting on local LAN.