[Qemu-devel] qemu-img: unable to convert raw image > 2GB with git master

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Hi all,

I've been trying to convert a raw disk partition from my laptop for use 
on VMWare player and I'm seeing the following error from qemu-img git 
master during conversion:

# qemu-img convert -f raw -O vmdk /dev/mapper/vm-raw out.vmdk
qemu-img: error while writing sector 4247552: Invalid argument

A quick glance at the resulting output file makes me thing that an 
artificial 2GB limit has accidentally been introduced:

# ls -l | grep out.vmdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2147483648 Sep 12 09:49 out.vmdk

Can anyone else reproduce this? The input /dev/mapper/vm-raw is simply a 
raw 4GB LVM partition on my local disk which is mapped through as a 
standard hard disk into QEMU.


Many thanks,

Mark.