[Qemu-devel] qemu-img vmdk converted from iso not accepted by vSphere

[Qemu-devel] qemu-img vmdk converted from iso not accepted by vSphere

[Rich Wellum]

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Hi,

Apologies in advance if I shouldn't be asking here - I can't find a dedicated forum.

When I convert an ISO to a VMDk and try to deploy it as part of an OVF package in vSphere I get the following error:



I've tried:

qemu-img convert -O vmdk image.iso image.vmdk
qemu-img convert -f raw image.iso -O vmdk image.vmdk

I'm using a very recent version of qemu-img. Anything obvious I am doing wrong?

Thanks,

||Rich

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Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img vmdk converted from iso not accepted by vSphere

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Rich Wellum <richwellum@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I convert an ISO to a VMDk and try to deploy it as part of an OVF package in vSphere I get the following error:
>
> I've tried:
> qemu-img convert -O vmdk image.iso image.vmdk
> qemu-img convert -f raw image.iso -O vmdk image.vmdk
> I'm using a very recent version of qemu-img. Anything obvious I am doing wrong?

By very recent version do you mean qemu.git/master?  Or 0.15.1?

Did previous versions of qemu-img convert the file correctly?

Stefan

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img vmdk converted from iso not accepted by vSphere

[Rich Wellum]

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Hi Stefan,

> qemu-img
qemu-img version 0.15.50, Copyright (c) 2004-2008 Fabrice Bellard

I haven't got this to work on any version - I was trying this version because of the expanded list of sub format versions - I thought one of them might be accepted.

Thanks,

||Rich

On Oct 20, 2011, at 1:50 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Rich Wellum <richwellum@gmail.com> wrote:
>> When I convert an ISO to a VMDk and try to deploy it as part of an OVF package in vSphere I get the following error:
>> 
>> I've tried:
>> qemu-img convert -O vmdk image.iso image.vmdk
>> qemu-img convert -f raw image.iso -O vmdk image.vmdk
>> I'm using a very recent version of qemu-img. Anything obvious I am doing wrong?
> 
> By very recent version do you mean qemu.git/master?  Or 0.15.1?
> 
> Did previous versions of qemu-img convert the file correctly?
> 
> Stefan


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Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img vmdk converted from iso not accepted by vSphere

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Rich Wellum <richwellum@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
>> qemu-img
> qemu-img version 0.15.50, Copyright (c) 2004-2008 Fabrice Bellard
> I haven't got this to work on any version - I was trying this version
> because of the expanded list of sub format versions - I thought one of them
> might be accepted.

That is a qemu.git/master tree and includes Fam's vmdk enhancements.

You could try the other subformats:

$ qemu-img convert -O vmdk -o subformat=monolithicFlat image.iso image.vmdk

or:

$ qemu-img convert -O vmdk -o subformat=twoGbMaxExtentSparse image.iso
image.vmdk

Fam: Any suggestions?  Do you know why vSphere is rejecting the
default monolithicSparse image?

Stefan

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img vmdk converted from iso not accepted by vSphere

[Rich Wellum]

On Oct 20, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Rich Wellum <richwellum@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Stefan,
>>> qemu-img
>> qemu-img version 0.15.50, Copyright (c) 2004-2008 Fabrice Bellard
>> I haven't got this to work on any version - I was trying this version
>> because of the expanded list of sub format versions - I thought one of them
>> might be accepted.
> 
> That is a qemu.git/master tree and includes Fam's vmdk enhancements.
> 
> You could try the other subformats:
> 
> $ qemu-img convert -O vmdk -o subformat=monolithicFlat image.iso image.vmdk
> 
> or:
> 
> $ qemu-img convert -O vmdk -o subformat=twoGbMaxExtentSparse image.iso
> image.vmdk

Tried them both - no luck same issue seen.

Thanks,

||Rich

> 
> Fam: Any suggestions?  Do you know why vSphere is rejecting the
> default monolithicSparse image?
> 
> Stefan

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img vmdk converted from iso not accepted by vSphere

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Rich Wellum <richwellum@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 20, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Rich Wellum <richwellum@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Stefan,
>>>> qemu-img
>>> qemu-img version 0.15.50, Copyright (c) 2004-2008 Fabrice Bellard
>>> I haven't got this to work on any version - I was trying this version
>>> because of the expanded list of sub format versions - I thought one of them
>>> might be accepted.
>>
>> That is a qemu.git/master tree and includes Fam's vmdk enhancements.
>>
>> You could try the other subformats:
>>
>> $ qemu-img convert -O vmdk -o subformat=monolithicFlat image.iso image.vmdk
>>
>> or:
>>
>> $ qemu-img convert -O vmdk -o subformat=twoGbMaxExtentSparse image.iso
>> image.vmdk
>
> Tried them both - no luck same issue seen.

Which version of vSphere are you using?

Stefan

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img vmdk converted from iso not accepted by vSphere

[Richard Wellum]

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cheers,

||Rich

On Oct 26, 2011, at 3:43 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Rich Wellum <richwellum@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Oct 20, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Rich Wellum <richwellum@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi Stefan,
>>>>> qemu-img
>>>> qemu-img version 0.15.50, Copyright (c) 2004-2008 Fabrice Bellard
>>>> I haven't got this to work on any version - I was trying this version
>>>> because of the expanded list of sub format versions - I thought one of them
>>>> might be accepted.
>>> 
>>> That is a qemu.git/master tree and includes Fam's vmdk enhancements.
>>> 
>>> You could try the other subformats:
>>> 
>>> $ qemu-img convert -O vmdk -o subformat=monolithicFlat image.iso image.vmdk
>>> 
>>> or:
>>> 
>>> $ qemu-img convert -O vmdk -o subformat=twoGbMaxExtentSparse image.iso
>>> image.vmdk
>> 
>> Tried them both - no luck same issue seen.
> 
> Which version of vSphere are you using?
> 
> Stefan


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Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img vmdk converted from iso not accepted by vSphere

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

Rich: Thanks for the ESXi 4.1.0 and vSphere Client 4.1.0 version info.

Fam: Do you have any suggestions how to debug the "Error uploading
file path/to/image.vmdk to server.  Not a supported disk format
(sparse VMDK version too old)" issue?  Ideally qemu-img would create
images that work with current VMware tools by default.

Stefan

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img vmdk converted from iso not accepted by vSphere

[Richard Wellum]

I see one other report of the same thing on the vmware forums:

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1839303

Thanks,

||Rich

On Oct 28, 2011, at 5:17 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:

> Rich: Thanks for the ESXi 4.1.0 and vSphere Client 4.1.0 version info.
> 
> Fam: Do you have any suggestions how to debug the "Error uploading
> file path/to/image.vmdk to server.  Not a supported disk format
> (sparse VMDK version too old)" issue?  Ideally qemu-img would create
> images that work with current VMware tools by default.
> 
> Stefan