[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1253465] [NEW] qemu-img: 'image' uses a vmdk feature which is not supported by this qemu version: VMDK version 3

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1253465] [NEW] qemu-img: 'image' uses a vmdk feature which is not supported by this qemu version: VMDK version 3

[adrelanos]

Public bug reported:

qemu-img convert in.vmdk  -O RAW out.img

Fails with:
qemu-img: 'image' uses a vmdk feature which is not supported by this qemu version: VMDK version 3

qemu-img version 1.6.1

** Affects: qemu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  qemu-img: 'image' uses a vmdk feature which is not supported by this
  qemu version: VMDK version 3

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  qemu-img convert in.vmdk  -O RAW out.img

  Fails with:
  qemu-img: 'image' uses a vmdk feature which is not supported by this qemu version: VMDK version 3

  qemu-img version 1.6.1

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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1253465] [NEW] qemu-img: 'image' uses a vmdk feature which is not supported by this qemu version: VMDK version 3

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

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 qemu 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?

Stefan

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1253465] [NEW] qemu-img: 'image' uses a vmdk feature which is not supported by this qemu version: VMDK version 3

[Fam Zheng]

On 2013年11月21日 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 qemu 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 
browser (or use ESX shell), I've posted instructions here:

http://famz.cn/?p=45

This is also the way that virt-v2v extracts guest images.

Fam

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1253465] Re: qemu-img: 'image' uses a vmdk feature which is not supported by this qemu version: VMDK version 3

[Patrick Schleizer]

> If you are aware of open source software which already supports
version 3, please let us know!

VirtualBox can.

- VirtualBox uses VMDK version 3 disks.
- When you export a VM with VirtualBox (creating an .ova), it will include VMDK version 3 disks.
- VirtualBox can convert from vmkd to vdi. ('VBoxManage clonehd --format VDI "vmdk_file" "vdi_file"')

Does that help?

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Title:
  qemu-img: 'image' uses a vmdk feature which is not supported by this
  qemu version: VMDK version 3

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  qemu-img convert in.vmdk  -O RAW out.img

  Fails with:
  qemu-img: 'image' uses a vmdk feature which is not supported by this qemu version: VMDK version 3

  qemu-img version 1.6.1

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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1253465] Re: qemu-img: 'image' uses a vmdk feature which is not supported by this qemu version: VMDK version 3

[Fam Zheng]

On Sat, 01/07 21:36, Patrick Schleizer wrote:
> > If you are aware of open source software which already supports
> version 3, please let us know!
> 
> VirtualBox can.
> 
> - VirtualBox uses VMDK version 3 disks.
> - When you export a VM with VirtualBox (creating an .ova), it will include VMDK version 3 disks.
> - VirtualBox can convert from vmkd to vdi. ('VBoxManage clonehd --format VDI "vmdk_file" "vdi_file"')
> 
> Does that help?

Can you try again with QEMU 2.8? Recent versions of QEMU should be able to
handle version 3 VMDK disks.

Fam

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1253465] Re: qemu-img: 'image' uses a vmdk feature which is not supported by this qemu version: VMDK version 3

[Thomas Huth]

** Changed in: qemu
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  qemu-img: 'image' uses a vmdk feature which is not supported by this
  qemu version: VMDK version 3

Status in QEMU:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  qemu-img convert in.vmdk  -O RAW out.img

  Fails with:
  qemu-img: 'image' uses a vmdk feature which is not supported by this qemu version: VMDK version 3

  qemu-img version 1.6.1

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[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1253465] Re: qemu-img: 'image' uses a vmdk feature which is not supported by this qemu version: VMDK version 3

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

[Expired for QEMU because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

** Changed in: qemu
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  qemu-img: 'image' uses a vmdk feature which is not supported by this
  qemu version: VMDK version 3

Status in QEMU:
  Expired

Bug description:
  qemu-img convert in.vmdk  -O RAW out.img

  Fails with:
  qemu-img: 'image' uses a vmdk feature which is not supported by this qemu version: VMDK version 3

  qemu-img version 1.6.1

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