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

[Rich Wellum]

On Oct 20, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:

> 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

Tried them both - no luck same issue seen.

Thanks,

||Rich

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