From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38176) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YTH89-0005H0-It for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2015 16:47:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YTH86-0005J7-B2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2015 16:47:01 -0500 Received: from nm35.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com ([98.138.229.28]:46594) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YTH86-0005Iz-2s for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2015 16:46:58 -0500 Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 21:44:12 +0000 (UTC) From: Sunil Kumar Message-ID: <1508523976.2921699.1425505452801.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20150303085332.GB29800@ad.nay.redhat.com> References: <20150303085332.GB29800@ad.nay.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] vmdk: improve streamOptimized vmdk support Reply-To: Sunil Kumar List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Fam Zheng , Milos Vyletel Cc: Kevin Wolf , qemu-devel , Markus Armbruster I don't have a qemu dev test environment if that's what you mean. But I will definitely be able to take a patch and test to see if the created streamOptimized VMDK gets accepted by the ESXi server that I have here. Thanks On Tuesday, March 3, 2015 12:54 AM, Fam Zheng wrote: On Tue, 03/03 09:36, Milos Vyletel wrote: > On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 9:50 PM, Sunil Kumar wrote: > > Any update on this Milos? > > > > Thanks. > > > > I did look at this yesterday and unfortunately it will be harder to > adapt to new head as previously thought. Since the addition of > next_cluster_sector (which is one of last Fam's comments in v3) > writing to vmdk's revolve around sectors instead of offset and that > does not work very well with streamOptimized format. > > I'm sorry but I don't think I'll have enough time to spend in near > future to get this properly working. Plus I no longer have the test > environment since I've changed jobs in the meantime. I'll see if I can roll some patches later. :) Sunil, do you have an environment to run the tests later? Fam > > Milos > > > > > > > On Monday, February 23, 2015 5:50 AM, Milos Vyletel wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote: > >> Am 23.02.2015 um 09:10 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben: > >>> Perhaps Fam (cc'ed) can help you. > >>> > >>> Sunil Kumar 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? > >> > > > > Oh, shame on me. I've completely forgot about this. I did quickly > > ported the patch to current upstream and did some basic testing. > > Something is little bit off so I will have to figure that out as well > > as look at Fam's comments and I will post v4 asap. I hope to find some > > time to look at this properly this week. > > > > > > Milos