We have a Windows 10 virtual machine in EFI boot mode. The VM boots up fine, but when we add a virtual CD-ROM drive (just to install VMware Tools), the operation is successful but no CD-ROM drive ever appears in the guest OS. It seems to have something to do with the fact it's an EFI partition. Also, the line firmware = "efi" is in the vmx file but this seems to have no effect on the issue. In vCenter, edit virtual hardware, everything works fine, but in the guest, even though the CD-ROM drive says it's connected, it is not present in file explorer.
Also, if we attempt to create a new VM and boot to the Windows 10 ISO, if it's EFI, it fails to boot. If we go into the guest boot session and select the CD drive, it does boot to the cd-rom ISO, but then reboots itself after a few seconds, and never makes it to the OS installation. It will just keep rebooting itself over and over.
Is there a solution to this?
Many thanks,
Sam (flux boy)