diff --git a/src/vmx/vmx.c b/src/vmx/vmx.c
index cf2d4df945..2d7e827d2d 100644
--- a/src/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/src/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -1305,6 +1305,7 @@ virVMXParseConfig(virVMXContext *ctx,
     struct virVMXConfigScanResults results = { -1 };
     long long coresPerSocket = 0;
     virCPUDefPtr cpu = NULL;
+    char *firmware = NULL;
 
     if (ctx->parseFileName == NULL) {
         virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, "%s",
@@ -1827,6 +1828,21 @@ virVMXParseConfig(virVMXContext *ctx,
         def->namespaceData = nsdata;
     }
 
+    /* vmx:firmware */
+    if (virVMXGetConfigString(conf, "firmware", &firmware, true) < 0)
+        goto cleanup;
+
+    if (firmware != NULL) {
+        if (STREQ(firmware, "efi")) {
+            def->os.firmware = VIR_DOMAIN_OS_DEF_FIRMWARE_EFI;
+        } else {
+            virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR,
+                           _("VMX entry 'firmware' has unknown value '%s'"),
+                           firmware);
+            goto cleanup;
+        }
+    }
+
     if (virDomainDefPostParse(def, caps, VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_ABI_UPDATE,
                               xmlopt, NULL) < 0)
         goto cleanup;
diff --git a/tests/vmx2xmldata/vmx2xml-firmware-efi.vmx b/tests/vmx2xmldata/vmx2xml-firmware-efi.vmx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dbb215a5db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vmx2xmldata/vmx2xml-firmware-efi.vmx
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+config.version = "8"
+virtualHW.version = "13"
+firmware = "efi"
diff --git a/tests/vmx2xmldata/vmx2xml-firmware-efi.xml b/tests/vmx2xmldata/vmx2xml-firmware-efi.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e21158cebf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vmx2xmldata/vmx2xml-firmware-efi.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+<domain type='vmware'>
+  <uuid>00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000</uuid>
+  <memory unit='KiB'>32768</memory>
+  <currentMemory unit='KiB'>32768</currentMemory>
+  <vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu>
+  <os firmware='efi'>
+    <type arch='i686'>hvm</type>
+  </os>
+  <clock offset='utc'/>
+  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
+  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
+  <on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
+  <devices>
+    <video>
+      <model type='vmvga' vram='4096' primary='yes'/>
+    </video>
+  </devices>
+</domain>
diff --git a/tests/vmx2xmltest.c b/tests/vmx2xmltest.c
index b70e8191d1..d7d03f1753 100644
--- a/tests/vmx2xmltest.c
+++ b/tests/vmx2xmltest.c
@@ -285,6 +285,8 @@ mymain(void)
 
     DO_TEST("svga", "svga");
 
+    DO_TEST("firmware-efi", "firmware-efi");
+
     ctx.datacenterPath = "folder1/folder2/datacenter1";
 
     DO_TEST("datacenterpath", "datacenterpath");