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TL;DR: The issue is likely that the EFI for VMWare isn’t finding the Boot.EFI file. You just need to tell it where it is. Scroll to bottom of article for instructions. I have an old Xserve with ESXi 6.5 on it that I got Monterey running on, however when I used Nakivo to make backups […]
TL;DR: You can’t upgrade. Do a clean install with EFI ( it will do bios by default) and enable secure boot for efi. Boot from the Windows 11 ISO and use the BypassSecureBootCheck and BypassTPMCheck registry settings. Then install as normal. I have a Windows 10 VM on my Xserve 3,1 running ESXi 6.5 that […]
Although the xserve is well past its prime I still have a couple that I use as part of my dev and lab environment. Although I don’t have a true need for production level uptime I do like to have it mirror a production level environment. As part of that I recently started playing with […]
Let me start by saying that VMWare does not officially support this and as far as I can tell they don’t necessarily want you to do it. So don’t expect to get support from them on this. However, with the fact that vSphere 6.5 is now old news chances are if you are here that […]