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nikhithnikky
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‎10-16-2019 08:46 AM

What is the command to get the VM's BOOT Mode (BIOS/EFI)?

Is there a command to check if a VM template is created with Boot Mode as BIOS/EFI? For ex: in esxi 6.7 if we create a VM template for Rhel7-x64, the boot mode is by default chosen as "BIOS", while for Rhel8-x64 its "EFI". Is there a command to get this boot Mode of a particular VM template?

I know from the GUI we can get this under "Edit Settings"-->"VM options" -- > "Boot Options", but I want to know if we have an equivalent command !!!

Thanks and Regards,

Nikhith

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nikhithnikky
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‎10-16-2019 11:40 AM

This command helped to get the Boot Mode of a VM:

"vim-cmd vmsvc/get.config <vm-id> | grep firmware"

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scott28tt
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‎10-16-2019 01:04 PM

Moderator note: Technical issue/question, moved to the VM forum area


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