current does not boot on vmware fusion 11

[Alexander V. Chernikov]

15.02.2020, 20:44, "Toomas Soome" <tsoome at me.com>:
>>  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.

Got it.
thank you for the prompt reply!
Any issue/review/code part/etc I can subscribe to get the notifications?

I switched the VM to version 16, jumped to the loader prompt, entered "ls", then "boot". The result is still the "The firmware encountered an unexpected exception" message.
Do I need to install the latest boot loader/do something else to workaround the issue?
I'm not blocked in any way with it, version 15 works just fine, just want to ensure this is the same problem.

Thank you!

>
> 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 @ 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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