On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Tue, 08/05 12:44, Milos Vyletel wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com> 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
Nope. It's just perl script that creates OVF, manifest and packs them together with vmdk. Qemu just does the conversion to vmdk in this case. Milos
