Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img convert (vmdk)

[Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 05/06 10:15, Antoni Villalonga wrote:
> 
> Hi again, it seems to be related to the subformat option. With the default
> option seems to work fine.
> 
> I think StreamOptimized is mantatory for 'ova' files.

I guess I see the problem now - the data is corrupted due to a wrong cluster
allocation during converting to streamOptimized. I'm testing a patch locally.

However there is another problem with streamOptimized which makes it refused in
exporting to VMware application. See also:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-08/msg00467.html

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-03/msg00024.html

Fam

> 
> Thanks
> 
> On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 05:01:34PM +0000, Antoni Villalonga wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is my first email to that list ;)
> > 
> > 
> > I can reproduce this bug with v2.2 and v2.3. I'm not sure about the results
> > after testing with v2.1 (doesn't show errors but seems to be still broken).
> > 
> > % qemu-img convert -f raw -O vmdk -o subformat=streamOptimized 100GB_inputfile.img outputfile0.vmdk
> > (no shown errors/warnings/info)
> > % qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O qcow2 outputfile0.vmdk outputfile11.qcow2
> > qemu-img: error while reading sector 278528: Invalid argument
> > 
> > Let me know if I can provide you more info.
> > 
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > -- 
> > Antoni Villalonga
> > http://friki.cat/
> 
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