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zbiggyato2dotpl
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VM EFI Setup - only boot sequence options. Cannot disable Floppy, Serial, Parallel, IDE like it is possible in BIOS Setup.

Hi,

I have just tried to use in virtual machine EFI Firmware instead of BIOS as usually because need to use 8TB virtual disk with GPT. EFI works fine with CentOS, everything great except one thing: in EFI Setup there is no option to disable:

-Floppy drive and controller

-Serial Port (COM)

-Parallel Port (LPT)

-IDE channels

I always disable this useless pile of legacy hardware in BIOS Setup but no option in EFI. Why VMWare continues to offer this in EFI without possibility to disable it? If we cannot disable this in EFI please drop this legacy. Nobody uses this with EFI. This hardawre is history which should stay in BIOS only for legacy systems as it is now. In EFI and BIOS those legacy devices should be disabled by default as 99,9% users do not need them.

Does anybody know a way to disable these legacy devices in EFI Setup? Maybe there is option I do not see. Or there is any other possibility than F2 menu?

greetings,

Zbigniew

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nachogonzalez
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You can remove the floppy from the vm without any issues, not quite sure about the other components.

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