Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1253465] [NEW] qemu-img: 'image' uses a vmdk feature which is not supported by this qemu version: VMDK version 3

[Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>]

On 2013年11月21日 16:37, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 11:00:14PM -0000, adrelanos wrote:
>> qemu-img convert in.vmdk  -O RAW out.img
>>
>> Fails with:
>> qemu-img: 'image' uses a vmdk feature which is not supported by this qemu version: VMDK version 3
>>
>> qemu-img version 1.6.1
>
> This is a known issue.  VMware has not released the file format
> specification for VMDK version 3.  At this point the information needed
> to implement version 3 support is not publicly available.
>
> If you are aware of open source software which already supports version
> 3, please let us know!
>
> Fam: Do you have instructions for exporting version 2 images from
> VMware?
>

Unfortunately I don't know there's a way to export version 2.

But you can still copy out the "raw" formatted VMDK in vSphere datastore 
browser (or use ESX shell), I've posted instructions here:

http://famz.cn/?p=45

This is also the way that virt-v2v extracts guest images.

Fam