Re: [Qemu-block] VMDK file unable to open in Qemu but ESXi

[Peter Lieven]

Am 27.09.2016 um 10:16 schrieb Kevin Wolf:
> Am 27.09.2016 um 04:02 hat Fam Zheng geschrieben:
> > On Mon, 09/26 16:30, Peter Lieven wrote:
> > > > So it looks like this file is not compliant to the specfication. Is it
> > > > recognized and imported by VMware?
> > > Yes, VMware ESXi imports it flawlessly.
> > The only possibility is that the "footer" is not in the end of the image. There
> > must be some other sector begins with bytes '4b 44 4d 56' besides the first.
> > Theoretically we can make QEMU accept this case by "scanning" the whole image
> > to look for the footer, but I'm not sure it's worth it.
> I would be surprised if VMware were scanning the whole image, so there
> must be some other way. If such images exist in real life, we should
> probably try to support them.

There is no second magic in the whole file. Is it possible that VMware restores
the footer from the info in the descriptor?

$ hexdump -C PI-VA-3.1.0.0.132-flex-disk1.vmdk | grep "4b 44 4d 56"
00000000  4b 44 4d 56 03 00 00 00  01 00 03 00 00 00 9f 24 |KDMV...........$|
$

Peter