Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 826363] [NEW] qemu-img convert does not work with vdi files

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Steve Si <address@hidden> wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> qemu-img.exe convert -O raw  myfile.vdi zz.raw
>
> reports 'error while writing' both in 0.15.0 and Beta rc2
> v0.11.1 works file on same file. myfile.vdi is 3.9GB made by VirtualBox.

Are you sure that there is enough space on the file system to write
out the converted raw image?

Please try qemu-img on a Linux host with the same file.  This way we
can be sure it's a generic bug rather than a Windows or
environment-specific problem.

Stefan