From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57481) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aotkI-0002YB-6y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2016 10:20:19 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aotkE-0004Wh-53 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2016 10:20:18 -0400 Received: from nm18-vm0.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com ([98.138.91.37]:44003) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aotkD-0004WW-Jl for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2016 10:20:14 -0400 Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 14:19:42 +0000 (UTC) From: devsk Reply-To: devsk Message-ID: <63805053.410749.1460211582107.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20150421060924.GC21030@fam-t430.nay.redhat.com> References: <20150421060924.GC21030@fam-t430.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 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Fam Zheng Cc: Kevin Wolf , Markus Armbruster , qemu-devel , Milos Vyletel Fam, Was this work ever completed? Thanks, Sunil On Monday, April 20, 2015 11:10 PM, Fam Zheng wrote: On Fri, 04/17 18:25, devsk wrote: > Fam: Any updates on this? Hi, I'm still working on the patchset. Will send to the list once it's done. Fam > 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 > > > >