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Re: [Qemu-block] VMDK file unable to open in Qemu but ESXi
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Fam Zheng |
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Re: [Qemu-block] VMDK file unable to open in Qemu but ESXi |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Sep 2016 19:34:18 +0800 |
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Mutt/1.7.0 (2016-08-17) |
On Mon, 09/26 12:56, Peter Lieven wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> i have a VMDK file for a Cisco Prime software appliance that I cannot open in
> Qemu, Virtualbox or any other tool except
>
> for ESXi. Qemu exits with an invalid footer message. At the expected position
> and also at the end of the file seems to be
>
> no footer. The VMDK has a -flex in the filename? Is this anything new that we
> can't handle in Qemu?
Looking at the code path it's possible that the image is not compliant to the
spec, or using a newer version number that QEMU doesn't support. Could you
hexdump the first and the last sectors for me to check?
Fam
>
>
> This here is the relevant part of the OVF description:
>
>
> <References>
> <File ovf:href="PI-VA-3.1.0.0.132-flex-disk1.vmdk" ovf:id="file1"
> ovf:size="3792931840" />
> </References>
>
> <DiskSection>
> <Info>Virtual disk information</Info>
> <Disk ovf:capacity="300" ovf:capacityAllocationUnits="byte * 2^30"
> ovf:diskId="vmdisk1" ovf:fileRef="file1"
> ovf:format="http://www.vmware.com/interfaces/specifications/vmdk.html#streamOptimized"
> ovf:populatedSize="8525510083"/>
> <Disk ovf:capacity="300" ovf:capacityAllocationUnits="byte * 2^30"
> ovf:diskId="vmdisk-expp"
> ovf:format="http://www.vmware.com/interfaces/specifications/vmdk.html#streamOptimized"
> ovf:populatedSize="8525510083"/>
> <Disk ovf:capacity="600" ovf:capacityAllocationUnits="byte * 2^30"
> ovf:diskId="vmdisk-std"
> ovf:format="http://www.vmware.com/interfaces/specifications/vmdk.html#streamOptimized"
> ovf:populatedSize="8525510083"/>
> <Disk ovf:capacity="900" ovf:capacityAllocationUnits="byte * 2^30"
> ovf:diskId="vmdisk-pro"
> ovf:format="http://www.vmware.com/interfaces/specifications/vmdk.html#streamOptimized"
> ovf:populatedSize="8525510083"/>
> </DiskSection>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
>
- [Qemu-block] VMDK file unable to open in Qemu but ESXi, Peter Lieven, 2016/09/26
- Re: [Qemu-block] VMDK file unable to open in Qemu but ESXi,
Fam Zheng <=
- Re: [Qemu-block] VMDK file unable to open in Qemu but ESXi, Peter Lieven, 2016/09/26
- Re: [Qemu-block] VMDK file unable to open in Qemu but ESXi, Fam Zheng, 2016/09/26
- Re: [Qemu-block] VMDK file unable to open in Qemu but ESXi, Peter Lieven, 2016/09/26
- Re: [Qemu-block] VMDK file unable to open in Qemu but ESXi, Fam Zheng, 2016/09/26
- Re: [Qemu-block] VMDK file unable to open in Qemu but ESXi, Kevin Wolf, 2016/09/27
- Re: [Qemu-block] VMDK file unable to open in Qemu but ESXi, Peter Lieven, 2016/09/27