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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: Feiran Zheng <famcool@gmail.com>,
	Bug 784977 <784977@bugs.launchpad.net>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 784977] [NEW] qemu-img convert fails to	convert, generates a 512byte file output
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 10:59:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110519085959.GA3696@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimY=71zcyNQOHsAfJF-7LYiLNJZzw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 09:56:37AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> Please post the output of "qemu-img info Ubuntu.vmdk".  I suspect this
> image file is not being recognized as vmdk and is being treated as a
> raw image, hence the literal copy of its 512-byte sector size
> contents.

It's not.  It's the "text" vmdk format which has nothing to do with the
binary vmdk images.  I really need to get back to my hacked up support
for them and then them in.  Until then vmware has a toolset to download
on their website which allows to convert these into a single large
binary vmdk file.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-19  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-19  4:17 [Qemu-devel] [Bug 784977] [NEW] qemu-img convert fails to convert, generates a 512byte file output Andy Brook
2011-05-19  8:56 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-05-19  8:59   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-01-17 21:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [Bug 784977] " Thomas Huth
2017-03-19  4:17 ` Launchpad Bug Tracker

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