I could have been clearer... Mikrotik's official CHR image requires "Legacy BIOS". And those are slow to boot (minutes) on Fusion. Using "UEFI" booting with Mikrotik's official image does not work — although Mikrotik includes the EFI booting code in image.
The links to my "repartitioned" CHR images — which is what seem to fix the "slow boot" on Fusion — require "EFI" boot be set in VMWare. Since VMWare is generally consistent across ESXi, Fusion, and Workstation.... My guess is there be hope it fixes Workstation too – e.g. symptoms here are identical to Fusion.
In VMWare Workstation, it should be on VM guest's Settings, Options, then Advanced tab. But VMWare Player may NOT show this EFI vs BIOS boot option, dunno.
All VMWare's use VMX files... so, worse case, you should be able to change firmware = setting in the VMX if it's wrong before bring up a new CHR. If the .VMX file has a firmware= line that set to "efi", then it boots using UEFI. If not, should be able to add the line firmware="efi" to VMX file to cause it to be used.
As I said, I tested Fusion & that's where I've had the "slow boot" problem... I just don't know to specific steps for the current Workstation to create a EFI-booting guest...
The links to my "repartitioned" CHR images — which is what seem to fix the "slow boot" on Fusion — require "EFI" boot be set in VMWare. Since VMWare is generally consistent across ESXi, Fusion, and Workstation.... My guess is there be hope it fixes Workstation too – e.g. symptoms here are identical to Fusion.
In VMWare Workstation, it should be on VM guest's Settings, Options, then Advanced tab. But VMWare Player may NOT show this EFI vs BIOS boot option, dunno.
All VMWare's use VMX files... so, worse case, you should be able to change firmware = setting in the VMX if it's wrong before bring up a new CHR. If the .VMX file has a firmware= line that set to "efi", then it boots using UEFI. If not, should be able to add the line firmware="efi" to VMX file to cause it to be used.
As I said, I tested Fusion & that's where I've had the "slow boot" problem... I just don't know to specific steps for the current Workstation to create a EFI-booting guest...
Statistics: Posted by Amm0 — Mon Mar 04, 2024 2:37 pm