From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44483) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBNYs-0000mT-8S for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 07:23:54 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBNYn-0003cs-8w for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 07:23:50 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:15234) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBNYn-0003cW-28 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 07:23:45 -0400 Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 19:23:35 +0800 From: Fam Zheng Message-ID: <20130819112335.GA27849@localhost.localdomain> References: <4A946BEF1E0D5A89DFF0499F@Ximines.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A946BEF1E0D5A89DFF0499F@Ximines.local> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] vmdk stream-optimised format Reply-To: famz@redhat.com List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alex Bligh Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Mon, 08/19 12:09, Alex Bligh wrote: > I note some recent work on vmdk file support. Has anyone looked at > supporting vmdk streaming format as an /output/ file format (I > think we currently support it as an input format). This is what > you need to use to upload a VM to vCenter. Currently the route > is convert to raw then use: > > https://github.com/imcleod/VMDK-stream-converter > > which is some Python from Ian McLeod > Life would be easier if qemu-img supported this directly. > It does not look fantastically difficult. > > -- > Alex Bligh > Yes, that would be something possible to do. Is it the only format to upload a VM to vCenter now, shouldn't normal VMDK be supported as well? Thanks, Fam