I have uploaded a VM from workstation to ESXi 5.5. This is a template vm that I had prepared in Workstation. (additionally I exported as an OVF and imported which gave me the advantage of Thin provisioning the disks, but the result was the same).
I get taken to the EFI boot manager, but have not successfully been able to boot.
I have removed the line from the .vmx file - firmware = "efi" - but this had the expected effect of not allowing the vm to boot.
I have also tried to add a boot option via the maintenance manager above but this failed (I may have been doing this wrong).
From the vmware.log I see:
Guest: EFI Shell inactive in default boot sequence
Msg_Post: Warning
[msg.Backdoor.OsNotFound] No operating system was found.
Any help appreciated!
On a side note - I had to convert the OVF using the OVFtool to use the SHA1 algorithm to allow for import as the ESXi 5.5 did not support the SHA256 verification.