From 5731e864c4f6ae58f48972b7c1771e9eefc57bf2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>

Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 14:30:21 +0100

Subject: [PATCH] v2v: docs: Describe support for SHA-2 certs for Windows 7 /

 2008 R2 (RHBZ#1624878).

Thanks: Yan Vugenfirer.

(cherry picked from commit 741ef228cd8d17bd1a8a60a2cfa83c3937120ede)

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 v2v/virt-v2v.pod | 14 ++++++++++++++

 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/v2v/virt-v2v.pod b/v2v/virt-v2v.pod

index 91f575617..457effa50 100644

--- a/v2v/virt-v2v.pod

+++ b/v2v/virt-v2v.pod

@@ -946,6 +946,20 @@ This can also prevent booting with a 7B error [see previous section]

 if the guest has group policy containing

 C<Device Installation Restrictions>.

+=head2 Support for SHA-2 certificates in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

+

+Later versions of the Windows virtio drivers are signed using SHA-2

+certificates (instead of SHA-1).  The original shipping Windows 7 and

+Windows Server 2008 R2 did not understand SHA-2 certificates and so

+the Windows virtio drivers will not install properly.

+

+To fix this you must apply SHA-2 Code Signing Support from:

+L<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/SecurityAdvisories/2015/3033929>

+before converting the guest.

+

+For further information see:

+L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1624878>

+

 =head1 UEFI

 VMware allows you to present UEFI firmware to guests (instead of the

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