VMware: Boot from UEFI images

Registered by Radoslav Gerganov

The VMware driver doesn't support booting from uefi images. This blueprint is about adding support for it.

The implementation is very straightforward: take the 'hw_firmware_type' property into account and set the corresponding 'firmware' property [1] of VirtualMachineConfigSpec when creating the VM.

[1] http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-60/topic/com.vmware.wssdk.apiref.doc/vim.vm.ConfigSpec.html

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
Matt Riedemann
Priority:
Low
Drafter:
Radoslav Gerganov
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
Radoslav Gerganov
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for queens
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
milestone icon queens-3
Started by
Radoslav Gerganov
Completed by
Matt Riedemann

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Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bp/vmware-boot-uefi,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/448034
    VMware: add support for different firmwares

Agreed in the Dec 21 nova meeting to allow this trivial feature parity blueprint change for Queens even though we're long-past spec freeze (which is also generally the blueprint approval freeze).

http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/nova/2017/nova.2017-12-21-21.00.log.html#l-83

-- mriedem 20180103

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