Re: [Qemu-discuss] Problem converting from vmdk to raw format

[Jakob Bohm]

qemu-img used the "sparse file" feature of your file system to not
actually allocate disk sectors for many of the all-zero blocks in
the raw file.  Your iso creation tool did not.

On 01/02/2016 05:42, Alexandre Schenberg wrote:
> thanks, was a permission problem, to change it solved the issue
>   I have another doubt, converting it to raw generate a 126.9GB file.
>   However df shows that the space used in the partition is only 8.x GB.
>   And now I am converting the raw file to an iso file and the iso is
>   really occupying space.
>   So why the space occupied by the raw file seems to do not exists and
>   the one from Iso does?
>   And why the Iso is becaming so big?
>
>   Thanks for the aid.
>
> 2016-02-01 2:40 GMT-02:00, Fam Zheng<address@hidden>:
> > On Mon, 02/01 01:53, Alexandre Schenberg wrote:
> > > Hello, I tried to convert a .vmdk file to a raw file with this
> > > command: "qemu-img convert -f vmdk /media/windows/WinXP-disk1.vmdk
> > > winxp.raw"
> > >
> > > The result was: "qemu-img: Could not open
> > > '/media/windows/WinXP-disk1.vmdk"
> > >
> > > I am sure that the vmdk file, WinXP-disk1.vmdk it is in the dir
> > > /media/windows
> > >
> > > So what I am doing wrongly?
> > Which qemu-img version are you using? Or which commit in the case of git
> > tree?


Enjoy

Jakob
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