Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1006655] Re: Can't convert to vmdk with the streamOptimized subformat

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 16.09.2015 um 14:11 hat Radoslav Gerganov geschrieben:
> My patch has landed:
> https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/3efffc3292d94271a15b1606b4a56adf6c6f04ed
> 
> I think we can resolve this bug as fixed.   Just one note for those how
> are trying to use streamOptimized images with VMware: you need to patch
> the VMDK version because VMware products accept only version 3 for
> streamOptimized:
> 
> # Set VMDK version 3 for foo.vmdk
> $ printf '\x03' | dd conv=notrunc of=foo.vmdk bs=1 seek=$((0x4))

Then I guess this is how qemu-img should create the image in the first
place. After all, compatibility with VMware is the only reason why the
VMDK driver exists.

Radoslav or Fam, can one of you send a patch for this?

Kevin