On Fri, 10/13 15:20, Guilherme Moro wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to convert some images from raw to vmdk to run in a ESXi6.5
server but I need to rectify the image before being able to run.
The scenario goes like that:
qemu-img convert -f raw image.raw -O vmdk -o compat6 image.vmdk
ESXi complains with "Failed - File system specific implementation of
LookupAndOpen"[file] failed
running vmkfstools -x repair on the image make it bootable
I checked the changes, vmkfstools is basically removing the second
descriptor from the end of the file, I'm not familiar enough with the code
and the format to know what this means, maybe compat6 should make qemu-img
avoid to put that in the end of the file (again, mostly guessing).
Anyway we would need an option to make sure that this second descriptor does
not end in the final image.
What do you mean by "second descriptor"? The one at offset 0x200? But other than
this descriptor I don't see a second one. Maybe I'm missing something?
Fam