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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1006655] Re: Can't convert to vmdk with the stream
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Fam Zheng |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1006655] Re: Can't convert to vmdk with the streamOptimized subformat |
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Thu, 17 Sep 2015 12:55:17 +0800 |
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Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
On Wed, 09/16 15:32, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 16.09.2015 um 14:11 hat Radoslav Gerganov geschrieben:
> > My patch has landed:
> > https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/3efffc3292d94271a15b1606b4a56adf6c6f04ed
> >
> > I think we can resolve this bug as fixed. Just one note for those how
> > are trying to use streamOptimized images with VMware: you need to patch
> > the VMDK version because VMware products accept only version 3 for
> > streamOptimized:
> >
> > # Set VMDK version 3 for foo.vmdk
> > $ printf '\x03' | dd conv=notrunc of=foo.vmdk bs=1 seek=$((0x4))
>
> Then I guess this is how qemu-img should create the image in the first
> place. After all, compatibility with VMware is the only reason why the
> VMDK driver exists.
>
> Radoslav or Fam, can one of you send a patch for this?
I'll send a patch.
Fam