From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49022) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cQ2Vn-00009E-AQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2017 20:43:08 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cQ2Vk-0007P4-8N for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2017 20:43:07 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:53840) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cQ2Vk-0007Of-2G for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2017 20:43:04 -0500 Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 09:42:58 +0800 From: Fam Zheng Message-ID: <20170108014043.GA9148@lemon.Home> References: <20131120230014.7464.50074.malonedeb@wampee.canonical.com> <20170107213614.14095.1814.malone@soybean.canonical.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170107213614.14095.1814.malone@soybean.canonical.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1253465] Re: qemu-img: 'image' uses a vmdk feature which is not supported by this qemu version: VMDK version 3 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Bug 1253465 <1253465@bugs.launchpad.net> Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Sat, 01/07 21:36, Patrick Schleizer wrote: > > If you are aware of open source software which already supports > version 3, please let us know! > > VirtualBox can. > > - VirtualBox uses VMDK version 3 disks. > - When you export a VM with VirtualBox (creating an .ova), it will include VMDK version 3 disks. > - VirtualBox can convert from vmkd to vdi. ('VBoxManage clonehd --format VDI "vmdk_file" "vdi_file"') > > Does that help? Can you try again with QEMU 2.8? Recent versions of QEMU should be able to handle version 3 VMDK disks. Fam