I note some recent work on vmdk file support. Has anyone looked at supporting vmdk streaming format as an /output/ file format (I think we currently support it as an input format). This is what you need to use to upload a VM to vCenter. Currently the route is convert to raw then use:
https://github.com/imcleod/VMDK-stream-converter which is some Python from Ian McLeod <imcl...@redhat.com> Life would be easier if qemu-img supported this directly. It does not look fantastically difficult. -- Alex Bligh