From: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: rgerganov@vmware.com, qemu-block@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1006655] Re: Can't convert to vmdk with the streamOptimized subformat
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 12:55:17 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150917045517.GB11527@ad.nay.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150916133234.GA3980@noname.str.redhat.com>
On Wed, 09/16 15:32, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> 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?
I'll send a patch.
Fam
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[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
2015-09-17 4:55 ` Fam Zheng [this message]
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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