VM with guest OS option Oracle Linux 8 (64bit) failed to boot on ESXi 6.7 GA

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:
A Virtual Machine configured with the guest OS option Oracle Linux 8 (64bit) and EFI firmware will fail to boot on ESXi 6.7 GA.

Environment

VMware vSphere 6.7.x

Resolution

This defect has been fixed in ESXi 6.7U1 and later releases. For full support of Oracle Linux 8, VMware requires use of a Virtual Machine with hardware version 15 or later that is available in ESXi 6.7U2 and or later releases.

Workaround:
Configure Virtual Machine to use guest OS option RHEL 8 (64-bit).