Bug ID 15603495
The "EHCI BIOS handoff failed" message appears in VMware ESX 4.0 Update 1. The failure message appears in the dmesg output.
Affected operating system and software:
Releases 1.0 through 1.10.1
VMware ESXi 4.0 Update 1
Workaround:
This is not a defect. This is expected behavior.