Looks like this had been fixed here: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=16372ff03d71c7ed3283 ==> Fix released.
** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/681613 Title: Failed to convert vmdk on MacOSX ppc Status in QEMU: Fix Released Bug description: qemu-img -O vmdk raw-file.dd vmdk-file.vmdk will failed with error. This issue will be occured on all big endian environment. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/681613/+subscriptions