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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] vmdk: improve streamOptimized vmdk support
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To: Sunil Kumar <internet_everyone@yahoo.com>
Cc: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

Perhaps Fam (cc'ed) can help you.

Sunil Kumar <internet_everyone@yahoo.com> 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?
>
> I will appreciate any help.
>
> -devsk