[Qemu-devel] [Bug 784977] Re: qemu-img convert fails to convert, generates a 512byte file output

[Thomas Huth]

Can you still reproduce this problem with the latest version of QEMU?

** Changed in: qemu
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  qemu-img convert fails to convert, generates a 512byte file output

Status in QEMU:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I have a Vmware image, so I have files like 'Ubuntu.vmdk', want to
  convert to VirtualBox .vdi format using qemu, the first stage of
  extracting the image with 'qemu-img convert Ubuntu.vmdk output.bin'
  just generates a 512byte file:

  {quote}
  # Disk DescriptorFile
  version=1
  CID=36be9761
  parentCID=ffffffff
  createType="twoGbMaxExtentSparse"

  # Extent description
  RW 4192256 SPARSE "Ubuntu-s001.vmdk"
  RW 4192256 SPARSE "Ubuntu-s002.vmdk"
  RW 4192256 SPARSE "Ubuntu-s003.vmdk"
  RW 4192256 SPARSE "Ubuntu-s004.vmdk"
  RW 4192256 SPARSE "Ubuntu-s005.vmdk"
  RW 4192256 SPARSE "Ubuntu-s006.vmdk"
  RW 4192256 SPARSE "Ubuntu-s007.vmdk"
  RW 4192256 SPARSE "Ubuntu-s008.vmdk"
  RW 4192256 SPARSE "Ubuntu-s009.vmdk"
  RW 4192256 SPARSE "Ubuntu-s010.vmdk"
  RW 20480 SPARSE "Ubunt
  {quote}

  Here is the input Ubuntu.vmdk file:
  {quote}
  # Disk DescriptorFile
  version=1
  CID=36be9761
  parentCID=ffffffff
  createType="twoGbMaxExtentSparse"

  # Extent description
  RW 4192256 SPARSE "Ubuntu-s001.vmdk"
  RW 4192256 SPARSE "Ubuntu-s002.vmdk"
  RW 4192256 SPARSE "Ubuntu-s003.vmdk"
  RW 4192256 SPARSE "Ubuntu-s004.vmdk"
  RW 4192256 SPARSE "Ubuntu-s005.vmdk"
  RW 4192256 SPARSE "Ubuntu-s006.vmdk"
  RW 4192256 SPARSE "Ubuntu-s007.vmdk"
  RW 4192256 SPARSE "Ubuntu-s008.vmdk"
  RW 4192256 SPARSE "Ubuntu-s009.vmdk"
  RW 4192256 SPARSE "Ubuntu-s010.vmdk"
  RW 20480 SPARSE "Ubuntu-s011.vmdk"

  # The Disk Data Base 
  #DDB

  ddb.toolsVersion = "7240"
  ddb.adapterType = "lsilogic"
  ddb.geometry.sectors = "63"
  ddb.geometry.heads = "255"
  ddb.geometry.cylinders = "2610"
  ddb.virtualHWVersion = "6"
  {quote}

  No stack trace or other output was found.  Anything I can add (other
  than the 20G VM image to reproduce and I'll be happy to provide)

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