Hello,
I'm creating new VM with UEFI boot, these are configured with VMXNET3 and it should boot with PXE to connect to a microsoft WDS server.
Our Setup use to work, but in some cases Virtual Machines won't boot from PXE, the problem is that apparently any request is going to DHCP server, at least DHCP server logs remains empty. I
Virtual machine remains in this state until network boot fails for timeout.
I've have seen that If we want to continue with the installation we could do these alternatives.
stop/start-vm.
or
reset VM
or
disconnect/connect Network
But any of these operations use to require a couple of attempts, after that the WDS installation starts, boot is loaded without trouble and installation continues until the end without troubles.
Now our DHCP server is Microsoft, but I've already done some test with Open DHPCERVER, AND in both cases the behaviour is the same.
As I don't have any log at any place, then the problem apparently seems that is related with the Virutal Machine network card when It boots from Network.
Our PXE setup is configured for only UEFI Virtual Machines, as we don't have WDS for Bios/legacy virtual machines. We are working with ESX 6.0u3, and new virtual machines reports version 11
Are vmxnet3 working well with UEFi PXE?
Regards