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

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Rich Wellum <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On Oct 20, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> $ qemu-img convert -O vmdk -o subformat=monolithicFlat image.iso image.vmdk
>>
>> or:
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>> $ qemu-img convert -O vmdk -o subformat=twoGbMaxExtentSparse image.iso
>> image.vmdk
>
> Tried them both - no luck same issue seen.

Which version of vSphere are you using?

Stefan