[Qemu-devel] [Bug 905095] Re: qemu-img can't convert vmdk file: Operation not permitted

[Thomas Mayer]

I retried with ubuntu 16.04, qemu-img version 2.5.0 (Debian 1:2.5+dfsg-
5ubuntu10.4).

While the original file (freetz vmdk) is not available (they use .ova now), I 
got another .vmdk file from
http://www.osboxes.org/debian/#debian-8-5-vmware

qemu-img convert Debian\ 8.5\ \(64bit\).vmdk -O raw test.raw
qemu-img convert Debian\ 8.5\ \(64bit\).vmdk -O qcow2 test.qcow2

Both worked, and I could boot the system I converted from .vmdk using
qemu-kvm.

Looks as if this issue got fixed, finally.

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Title:
  qemu-img can't convert vmdk file: Operation not permitted

Status in QEMU:
  New
Status in qemu-kvm package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in qemu-kvm package in Fedora:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  There is no reason why the vdmk image can't be converted. Even running
  it as root does not help.

  $ ls -lh
  insgesamt 60G
  -rw-rw-rw- 1 root   root   479M 2011-09-10 17:47 freetz-linux-1.2.1-disk1.vmdk

  $ sudo qemu-img convert freetz-linux-1.2.1-disk1.vmdk -O raw 
/tmp/freetz-linux-1.2.1-disk1.raw
  qemu-img: Could not open 'freetz-linux-1.2.1-disk1.vmdk': Operation not 
permitted
  qemu-img: Could not open 'freetz-linux-1.2.1-disk1.vmdk'

  I get a similar Error when I try to rum vmdk images directly. After adding a 
new machine and adding vmdk disks with virt-manager, it tells me when I start 
the virtual machine:
  Error starting domain: internal error process exited while connecting to 
monitor: char device redirected to /dev/pts/1
  kvm: -drive 
file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/freetz-linux-1.2.1-disk1.vmdk,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,boot=on,format=qcow2:
 could not open disk image 
/var/lib/libvirt/images/freetz-linux-1.2.1-disk1.vmdk: Invalid argument

  Runnung raw images works perfectly for me.

  Hint: i have a symlink set:
  /var/lib/libvirt$ ls -lh
  insgesamt 12K
  drwxr-xr-x 2 root         root 4,0K 2011-07-26 14:30 boot
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root         root    9 2011-08-19 10:47 images -> /home/vms
  drwxr-xr-x 2 root         root 4,0K 2011-08-19 09:38 network
  drwxr-xr-x 5 libvirt-qemu kvm  4,0K 2011-12-16 04:34 qemu

  but this should not be the reason hopefully

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: qemu-kvm 0.14.0+noroms-0ubuntu4.4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-13.52-generic 2.6.38.8
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-13-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  CheckboxSubmission: 8f12e98536291f59719792d89958b124
  CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
  Date: Fri Dec 16 04:24:10 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 
(20100816.1)
  KvmCmdLine: Error: command ['ps', '-C', 'kvm', '-F'] failed with exit code 1: 
UID        PID  PPID  C    SZ   RSS PSR STIME TTY          TIME CMD
  MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E5510
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-13-generic 
root=UUID=503213e4-5136-4e60-8a02-7cbd0123dca8 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: qemu-kvm
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-08-18 (119 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 09/08/2011
  dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: A11
  dmi.board.name: 023HKR
  dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.board.version: A00
  dmi.chassis.type: 9
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.modalias: 
dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA11:bd09/08/2011:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE5510:pvr0001:rvnDellInc.:rn023HKR:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct9:cvr:
  dmi.product.name: Latitude E5510
  dmi.product.version: 0001
  dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

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