From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:58977) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QMz5S-0001s8-H6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2011 05:00:11 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QMz5R-0002hk-A9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2011 05:00:06 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:45089 helo=newverein.lst.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QMz5R-0002hZ-4s for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2011 05:00:05 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 10:59:59 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig Message-ID: <20110519085959.GA3696@lst.de> References: <20110519041753.18011.86775.malonedeb@wampee.canonical.com> <20110519041753.18011.86775.malonedeb@wampee.canonical.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 784977] [NEW] qemu-img convert fails to convert, generates a 512byte file output List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefan Hajnoczi Cc: Feiran Zheng , Bug 784977 <784977@bugs.launchpad.net>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 09:56:37AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > Please post the output of "qemu-img info Ubuntu.vmdk". I suspect this > image file is not being recognized as vmdk and is being treated as a > raw image, hence the literal copy of its 512-byte sector size > contents. It's not. It's the "text" vmdk format which has nothing to do with the binary vmdk images. I really need to get back to my hacked up support for them and then them in. Until then vmware has a toolset to download on their website which allows to convert these into a single large binary vmdk file.