Re: current does not boot on vmware fusion 11

> On 15. Feb 2020, at 22:19, Alexander V. Chernikov <melifaro_at_ipfw.ru> wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 

We do not do secure boot. However, there is known issue I am trying to fix. You can try to run from ok prompt: ls and then boot. 

rgds,
toomas


> 
> 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
> -
> 
> 
> 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
> 
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