On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:18:42AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >> qemu-img is a pretty good Rosetta stone for image formats but it is >> missing support some format versions. In order to bring qemu-img >> up-to-date with the latest disk image formats we will need to find >> specific image files and/or software versions that produce image files >> that qemu-img cannot understand today. >> >> If you have image files that qemu-img is unable to manipulate, please >> respond with details of the software and version used to produce the >> image. If possible please include a link to a small example image >> file. > > Stefan, > > We found that using the vSphere 4.x "Export to OVF" option would > produce a VMDK file that qemu-img could not convert to raw.
Excellent, thanks for sharing this. I hope we can build a picture of where there is missing support and address this in the "Improved Image Format Compatiblity" project for Google Summer of Code: http://wiki.qemu.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2011#Improved_image_format_compatibility Stefan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
