From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: qemu-block@nongnu.org, rgerganov@vmware.com
Cc: famz@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1006655] Re: Can't convert to vmdk with the streamOptimized subformat
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 15:32:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150916133234.GA3980@noname.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150916121131.10679.62163.malone@chaenomeles.canonical.com>
Am 16.09.2015 um 14:11 hat Radoslav Gerganov geschrieben:
> My patch has landed:
> https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/3efffc3292d94271a15b1606b4a56adf6c6f04ed
>
> I think we can resolve this bug as fixed. Just one note for those how
> are trying to use streamOptimized images with VMware: you need to patch
> the VMDK version because VMware products accept only version 3 for
> streamOptimized:
>
> # Set VMDK version 3 for foo.vmdk
> $ printf '\x03' | dd conv=notrunc of=foo.vmdk bs=1 seek=$((0x4))
Then I guess this is how qemu-img should create the image in the first
place. After all, compatibility with VMware is the only reason why the
VMDK driver exists.
Radoslav or Fam, can one of you send a patch for this?
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-16 13:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20120530234408.16043.24886.malonedeb@chaenomeles.canonical.com>
2015-02-24 2:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1006655] Re: Can't convert to vmdk with the streamOptimized subformat Serge Hallyn
2015-09-09 9:09 ` Radoslav Gerganov
2015-09-16 12:11 ` Radoslav Gerganov
2015-09-16 13:32 ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2015-09-17 4:55 ` Fam Zheng
2015-09-19 0:34 ` Launchpad Bug Tracker
2016-03-29 22:36 ` Serge Hallyn
2016-04-01 8:28 ` Thiago Martins
2016-04-01 8:29 ` Thiago Martins
2017-01-19 14:23 ` Thomas Huth
2017-09-29 17:47 ` Francis Ginther
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