Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] vmdk: improve streamOptimized vmdk support

[Fam Zheng]

On Tue, 08/05 12:44, Milos Vyletel wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Fam Zheng <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Does putting a monolithicSparse into the OVA work in this case?
> 
> It does not. I did not try to import it to OVM but ESXi server
> complained about the format of vmdk in OVA archive (don't have exact
> error message anymore). I did look in OVF specifications and it does
> not state that the vmdk must be streamOptimized but it looks like
> VMWare is enforcing it.
> 
> I can try to create OVA with monolithicSparse image and retry if you
> want to know exact error I got.

I'm curious about the tool you're using to create OVA, because there are xml
files in OVA/OVF that qemu has no knowledge about.

Is it some tool from VMware?

Fam