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Re: [Xen-devel] [OSSTEST v6 08/24] ts-debian-hvm-install: Only apply EFI workaround for Wheezy



Ian Campbell writes ("[OSSTEST v6 08/24] ts-debian-hvm-install: Only apply EFI 
workaround for Wheezy"):
> The previous refactoring of preseed hooks makes this easy to do.
> 
> The underlying issue is lack of persistent variable store in our OVMF
> setup, which we workaround by placing a copy of grub at the removable
> media path. Add a comment saying this since I initially thought this
> was just a Wheezy bug.
> 
> In Jessie the extra copy of grub can be achieved by preseeding
> grub-installer/force-efi-extra-removable (since various real h/w has
> similar limitations/bugs) however I haven't tested that so I didn't
> add it to the preseed yet, I just mention it in the code comment.
> 
> Currently this script hardcodes Wheezy, refactor to use the 'suite'
> guest_var (or $c{GuestDebianSuite})
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx

Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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