From: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
To: Guilherme Moro <gmoro@suse.de>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img convert to VMDK
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 17:45:43 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171014094543.GA32099@lemon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58f74661-3830-4127-e30b-37baebeba532@suse.de>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-14 9:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-13 14:20 [Qemu-devel] qemu-img convert to VMDK Guilherme Moro
2017-10-14 9:45 ` Fam Zheng [this message]
2017-10-16 11:16 ` Guilherme Moro
2017-10-17 16:58 ` Guilherme Moro
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