Re: [Qemu-devel] vmdk: improve streamOptimized vmdk support

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 23.02.2015 um 09:10 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben:
> Perhaps Fam (cc'ed) can help you.
> 
> Sunil Kumar <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> [...]
> > Hi,
> >
> > I ran into an issue where the OVA created from the VMDK file created
> > by qemu-img is rejected by vSphere with a message like "Not a
> > supported disk format (sparse VMDK too old)". I was looking through
> > the archives and found this:
> >
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-08/msg01028.html
> >
> > That's exactly my issue and the patch will resolve it. But this patch
> > has not been merged yet and it does not apply on top of 2.2.0
> > cleanly. Any ideas what happened to the patch there?

Fam had review comments in the mailing list thread that you refer to
above, so it seems we're still waiting for a v4 patch by Milos that
addresses the issues Fam found.

Milos, are you still interested in this patch or should someone else
pick it up?

Kevin