Am 27.09.2016 um 04:02 hat Fam Zheng geschrieben: > On Mon, 09/26 16:30, Peter Lieven wrote: > > > So it looks like this file is not compliant to the specfication. Is it > > > recognized and imported by VMware? > > > > Yes, VMware ESXi imports it flawlessly. > > The only possibility is that the "footer" is not in the end of the image. > There > must be some other sector begins with bytes '4b 44 4d 56' besides the first. > Theoretically we can make QEMU accept this case by "scanning" the whole image > to look for the footer, but I'm not sure it's worth it.
I would be surprised if VMware were scanning the whole image, so there must be some other way. If such images exist in real life, we should probably try to support them. Kevin
