Dear community,
Has anyone managed to get the CentOS 8.2 GenericCloud image to boot on vSphere? We have tried CentOS 7 and it works fine.
This is the image:
https://cloud.centos.org/centos/8/x86_64/images/CentOS-8-GenericCloud-8.2.2004-20200611.2.x86_64.qcow2
We convert this image to vmdk with a command like this:
qemu-img convert -f qcow2 \
-O vmdk \
-o subformat=streamOptimized \
CentOS-8-GenericCloud-8.2.2004-20200611.2.x86_64.qcow2 \
CentOS-8-GenericCloud-8.2.2004-20200611.2.x86_64.vmdk
When we boot it we get stuck with the error "Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)… ok", suggesting the kernel is loading but not much more. I did some research suggesting missing SCSI drivers in the image. We have also tried adding the kernel parameter "edd=off" (did not help). I also tried changing the drive controller to SATA instead of SCSI, and it did not help.
I also confirmed the image has the VMware paravirtual SCSI driver:
$ lsinitrd initramfs-4.18.0-193.6.3.el8_2.x86_64.img | grep pvscsi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11536 Apr 24 2020 usr/lib/modules/4.18.0-193.6.3.el8_2.x86_64/kernel/drivers/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.ko.xz
Any suggestions are welcome
All the best,
Oscar