RHEL 7 boots with no display output on UEFI system with SVGA disabled

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 boots with no display output on the virtual UEFI system with SVGA function disabled. The display output is present in the BIOS mode.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 console is displayed fine in this environment.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • VMware ESXi hypervisor
  • UEFI mode
  • svga.vgaOnly option set to TRUE

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