From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44581) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjQXm-00080A-4r for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 04:27:30 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjQXh-000892-A5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 04:27:26 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:45993) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjQXh-00088w-1z for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 04:27:21 -0500 Message-ID: <528DD1EE.5090508@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:27:10 +0800 From: Fam Zheng MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20131120230014.7464.50074.malonedeb@wampee.canonical.com> <20131120230014.7464.50074.malonedeb@wampee.canonical.com> <20131121083716.GD27039@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20131121083716.GD27039@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1253465] [NEW] qemu-img: 'image' uses a vmdk feature which is not supported by this qemu version: VMDK version 3 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefan Hajnoczi , Bug 1253465 <1253465@bugs.launchpad.net> Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 2013=E5=B9=B411=E6=9C=8821=E6=97=A5 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 q= emu 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=20 browser (or use ESX shell), I've posted instructions here: http://famz.cn/?p=3D45 This is also the way that virt-v2v extracts guest images. Fam