Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img vmdk converted from iso not accepted by vSphere

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Rich Wellum <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
>> qemu-img
> qemu-img version 0.15.50, Copyright (c) 2004-2008 Fabrice Bellard
> I haven't got this to work on any version - I was trying this version
> because of the expanded list of sub format versions - I thought one of them
> might be accepted.

That is a qemu.git/master tree and includes Fam's vmdk enhancements.

You could try the other subformats:

$ qemu-img convert -O vmdk -o subformat=monolithicFlat image.iso image.vmdk

or:

$ qemu-img convert -O vmdk -o subformat=twoGbMaxExtentSparse image.iso
image.vmdk

Fam: Any suggestions?  Do you know why vSphere is rejecting the
default monolithicSparse image?

Stefan