Perhaps Fam (cc'ed) can help you. Sunil Kumar <internet_every...@yahoo.com> writes:
[...] > Hi, > > I ran into an issue where the OVA created from the VMDK file created > by qemu-img is rejected by vSphere with a message like "Not a > supported disk format (sparse VMDK too old)". I was looking through > the archives and found this: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-08/msg01028.html > > That's exactly my issue and the patch will resolve it. But this patch > has not been merged yet and it does not apply on top of 2.2.0 > cleanly. Any ideas what happened to the patch there? > > I will appreciate any help. > > -devsk