current does not boot on vmware fusion 11

Hi folks,

I upgraded vmware fusion to version 11 recently and noticed that my -amd64 VM stops booting immediately after printing EFI framebuffer information.

VM pops up a message stating that "The firmware encountered an unexpected exception. The virtual machine cannot boot."

Further digging revealed that the fusion upgrade bumped vmware virtual HW version to 16. Downgrading it to version 15 enabled VM to work again as expected.

Description of HWv16 include "UEFI Secure Boot" as one of the declared features, which looks like the potential candidate reason. The full feature list is available below.
How can I debug this further?


Details:
Host: macbook pro 2017, Intel core i7, Mojave 10.14.6
VM: r357812, amd64.
Vmware Fusion 11.5.1 (15018442)

Full VM output before the error:

Loading kernel... 
/boot/kernel/kernel text=0x1562084 data=0xe0 data=0x1b5158+0x449ea8 syms=[0x8+0x 174e70+0x8+0x19408f] Loading configured modules... 
can't find I/boot/entropy'
Start _at_ 0xffffffff80369000 ...
EFI framebuffer information:
adds, size 0xf0000000, 0x300000
dimensions 1024 x 768
stride 1024
masks 0x00ff0000, 0x0000ff00, 0x000000ff, 0xff000000
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HWv16 description from https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion :

Included in HWv16 are:
Improved Virtual NVMe Device Performance
Important Security Fixes (Spectre, Meltdown and L1TF)
Virtual Trusted Platform Module
UEFI Secure Boot
IOMMU
VBS Support (guest only)



/Alexander