Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img convert to VMDK

[Fam Zheng]

On Fri, 10/13 15:20, Guilherme Moro wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to convert some images from raw to vmdk to run in a ESXi6.5
> server but I need to rectify the image before being able to run.
> 
> The scenario goes like that:
> 
> qemu-img convert -f raw image.raw -O vmdk -o compat6 image.vmdk
> ESXi complains with "Failed - File system specific implementation of
> LookupAndOpen"[file] failed
> running vmkfstools -x repair on the image make it bootable
> 
>  I checked the changes, vmkfstools is basically removing the second
> descriptor from the end of the file, I'm not familiar enough with the code
> and the format to know what this means, maybe compat6 should make qemu-img
> avoid to put that in the end of the file (again, mostly guessing).
> 
> Anyway we would need an option to make sure that this second descriptor does
> not end in the final image.

What do you mean by "second descriptor"? The one at offset 0x200? But other than
this descriptor I don't see a second one. Maybe I'm missing something?

Fam