Boot Failed. EFI Hard Drive after VMWare VM conversion to KVM

[swiguy]

Hello all,

 

I've been searching through the unRAID forum (and various Google searches) regarding an issue I'm seeing after performing VM conversion. I've moved from an ESXi 6 setup to unRAID KVM, I have various Win 10 Pro VMs that are VMDK files which I want to convert KVM usable IMG files.

 

I followed the unRAID support video "How to convert a VM from VMWare to unRAID KVM" to the letter and when I attempt to boot these Win 10 VMs, I get an error at start up "Boot Failed. EFI Hard Drive" after which the UEFI interactive shell appears.

 

I've run these VMDKs through the qemu conversion process using this command: "qemu-img convert -p -f vmdk -O raw HTPC.vmdk HPTC.img". I've also edited the VM XML file accordingly.

 

I'm not sure what the problem is, if someone could provide some tips that would be greatly appreciated!

 

Thanks

[swiguy]

I stumbled upon a post where someone suggested changing the BIOS setting to SeaBIOS. This seems to have done the trick.

 

Just an FYI to anyone else that comes across this problem.

 

Thanks anyway!