Still learning about Terraform and all the great ways it can help me do my job. I just reset my home lab and created my Linux VM template for CentOS. I went through the whole process to set it up as template and kicked off my Terraform file for a VM creation. It created the VM, but it when the VM booted it said “No OS Found”. Because this is not my first round having this issue I knew what the issue was, the boot mode was wrong. I did some research (Google) and found a great article with this same issue. From the article it states that Terraform by default, the boot mode is BIOS and VMware defaults VM is EFI. So needless to say I did not want to re-create my VM and change the setting to BIOS. In order to address this situation you need to modify some files.
Enough of that, lets get into it.
Edit the VM’s declaration file. Add the following line below “scsi_type”
firmware = var.vsphere_vm_firmware
Next add in the variable files the following line
variable "vsphere_vm_firmware" {}
Next edit your terraform.tfvars file. Place the line under the vsphere section
vsphere_vm_firmware = "efi"
With this process you can go about your business and create VM’s.
Ed_Tech_Jeff 