From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57331) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZcREN-00022k-1d for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 00:55:39 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZcREI-0002LJ-96 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 00:55:34 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 12:55:17 +0800 From: Fam Zheng Message-ID: <20150917045517.GB11527@ad.nay.redhat.com> References: <20120530234408.16043.24886.malonedeb@chaenomeles.canonical.com> <20150916121131.10679.62163.malone@chaenomeles.canonical.com> <20150916133234.GA3980@noname.str.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150916133234.GA3980@noname.str.redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1006655] Re: Can't convert to vmdk with the streamOptimized subformat List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Kevin Wolf Cc: rgerganov@vmware.com, qemu-block@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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