Re: [Qemu-block] VMDK file unable to open in Qemu but ESXi

[Fam Zheng]

On Mon, 09/26 12:56, Peter Lieven wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> i have a VMDK file for a Cisco Prime software appliance that I cannot open in 
> Qemu, Virtualbox or any other tool except
> 
> for ESXi. Qemu exits with an invalid footer message. At the expected position 
> and also at the end of the file seems to be
> 
> no footer. The VMDK has a -flex in the filename? Is this anything new that we 
> can't handle in Qemu?

Looking at the code path it's possible that the image is not compliant to the
spec, or using a newer version number that QEMU doesn't support. Could you
hexdump the first and the last sectors for me to check?

Fam

> 
> 
> This here is the relevant part of the OVF description:
> 
> 
>   <References>
>         <File ovf:href="PI-VA-3.1.0.0.132-flex-disk1.vmdk" ovf:id="file1" 
> ovf:size="3792931840" />
>   </References>
> 
>   <DiskSection>
>         <Info>Virtual disk information</Info>
>         <Disk ovf:capacity="300" ovf:capacityAllocationUnits="byte * 2^30" 
> ovf:diskId="vmdisk1" ovf:fileRef="file1"
> ovf:format="http://www.vmware.com/interfaces/specifications/vmdk.html#streamOptimized";
>  ovf:populatedSize="8525510083"/>
>         <Disk ovf:capacity="300" ovf:capacityAllocationUnits="byte * 2^30" 
> ovf:diskId="vmdisk-expp"
> ovf:format="http://www.vmware.com/interfaces/specifications/vmdk.html#streamOptimized";
>  ovf:populatedSize="8525510083"/>
>         <Disk ovf:capacity="600" ovf:capacityAllocationUnits="byte * 2^30" 
> ovf:diskId="vmdisk-std"
> ovf:format="http://www.vmware.com/interfaces/specifications/vmdk.html#streamOptimized";
>  ovf:populatedSize="8525510083"/>
>         <Disk ovf:capacity="900" ovf:capacityAllocationUnits="byte * 2^30" 
> ovf:diskId="vmdisk-pro"
> ovf:format="http://www.vmware.com/interfaces/specifications/vmdk.html#streamOptimized";
>  ovf:populatedSize="8525510083"/>
>   </DiskSection>
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Peter
>