Configuring PVS to use UEFI

[Ben Tusa]

PVS 1909

VMware 6.7

Win10 1903 (image created in AL 1911)

 

The guide makes it sound trivial (when using BDM option, PXE is not an option for me anyway)

https://tech.xenit.se/citrix-pvs-uefi-boot-targets/

 

I've created a BDM ISO with the UEFI checkbox.  Put it on my EFI enabled Virtual Machine.  Added the device to PVS.  It boots and connects to the pvs server.   I pick the image but then I get an error "EFI system partition (ESP) error:  Unsupported.   Attached a screenshot.

 

I created a 2nd BDM ISO without the UEFI option and put it on a VM with BIOS.  That one boots up just fine.  In preparing my image in AL I had booted up an OS version using a UEFI template VM which works.  Did I miss some other PVS specific UEFI steps in the Platform Layer?

 

Looking for ideas on what to look at next.  Thanks

[Ben Tusa]

Opened a ticket with Citrix Support.  They are telling me UEFI is not supported with AL+PVS.  They don't have any documentation stating that either way thou.

[Clement Thuraisamy1709154286]

Any update on this? 

[Ben Tusa]

1 hour ago, Clement Thuraisamy1709154286 said:

Any update on this? 

 

It's still not documented clearly but AL supports UEFI (on VMware) and PVS supports UEFI but when used together they do not support UEFI.  So I've just moved on using BIOS.

[Clement Thuraisamy1709154286]

Ok.. thanks for update. That’s what I have read as well but wanted to see if support provided more updates. 
 

Planning to switch to MCS once we move to HCI. So I will use bios on pvs for now. 

[Venkat Bhimisetty]

Any update on UEFI support with AL+PVS?

[Carl Fallis]

So all hypervisors that App Layering support the compositing engine support PVS UEFI and at this time I think it supports all hypervisors, VmWare, Xenserver, HyperV and Nutanix in the latest App Layering release 2312....