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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] vmdk: improve streamOptimized vmdk support
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Milos Vyletel |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] vmdk: improve streamOptimized vmdk support |
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Wed, 6 Aug 2014 12:36:24 -0400 |
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Fam Zheng <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, 08/05 12:44, Milos Vyletel wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Fam Zheng <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > Does putting a monolithicSparse into the OVA work in this case?
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>> It does not. I did not try to import it to OVM but ESXi server
>> complained about the format of vmdk in OVA archive (don't have exact
>> error message anymore). I did look in OVF specifications and it does
>> not state that the vmdk must be streamOptimized but it looks like
>> VMWare is enforcing it.
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>> I can try to create OVA with monolithicSparse image and retry if you
>> want to know exact error I got.
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> I'm curious about the tool you're using to create OVA, because there are xml
> files in OVA/OVF that qemu has no knowledge about.
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> Is it some tool from VMware?
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> Fam
Nope. It's just perl script that creates OVF, manifest and packs them
together with vmdk. Qemu just does the conversion to vmdk in this
case.
Milos