The destination does not support EFI firmware - Converter 6.0.0 - ESXi 5.5

[corumba]

Hello there,

I'm trying to run a live P2V using vmware converter standalone 6.0.0 running on the actually physical machine to be converted and after selecting the ESXi 5.5 destination I get "The destination does not support EFI firmware". The physical machine is running Windows 2008 R2 standard x64 and is a System x3550 M2. Ive searched the internet but cant seem to find anyone with the same issue.

Does anyone know if there is a workaround for this issue?

Many thanks

[POCEH]

Upgrade or change your destination (i.e. ESX) with one that supports EFI.

HTH

[Kisan_VMware]

Hi

See the VMware KB article.

VMware KB: VMware vCenter Converter is unable to see the disks when converting Windows operating sys...

[corumba]

Are you saying that ESXi 5.5 doesn't support efi guests?

[corumba · Accepted solution]

Well the problem was that EVC mode was enabled on the cluster and there were some 4.1 esxi hosts in the cluster. once i removed the 4.1 host out of the cluster the converter offered 8,9 and 10 virtual machine versions which support efi. This resolved the prob.