From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54236) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XEqH6-0007OQ-Vr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2014 21:44:27 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XEqH0-00078S-Rs for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2014 21:44:20 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:41208) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XEqH0-00078O-KN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2014 21:44:14 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 09:44:31 +0800 From: Fam Zheng Message-ID: <20140806014431.GD1804@T430.nay.redhat.com> References: <1404744867-32469-1-git-send-email-milos.vyletel@gmail.com> <1407172228-11690-1-git-send-email-milos.vyletel@gmail.com> <20140805052718.GA1215@T430.nay.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] vmdk: improve streamOptimized vmdk support List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Milos Vyletel Cc: Kevin Wolf , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Stefan Hajnoczi On Tue, 08/05 12:44, Milos Vyletel wrote: > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Fam Zheng wrote: > > Does putting a monolithicSparse into the OVA work in this case? > > It does not. I did not try to import it to OVM but ESXi server > complained about the format of vmdk in OVA archive (don't have exact > error message anymore). I did look in OVF specifications and it does > not state that the vmdk must be streamOptimized but it looks like > VMWare is enforcing it. > > I can try to create OVA with monolithicSparse image and retry if you > want to know exact error I got. I'm curious about the tool you're using to create OVA, because there are xml files in OVA/OVF that qemu has no knowledge about. Is it some tool from VMware? Fam