Try the solutions in 1828508 ( -o adapter_type=lsilogic,subformat=monolithicFlat) 1776920 ( -S 0 ) do not work either
What other steps can I take to troubleshoot? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1835477 Title: Converting qcow2 to vmdk on MacOSX results in a non-bootable image Status in QEMU: New Bug description: When using qemu-img convert -O vmdk with version 3.1.0 or 4.0.0 on OSX (10.14.3) with a qcow2 image (https://cloud- images.ubuntu.com/bionic/20190703/bionic-server-cloudimg-amd64.img), the resulting image is not bootable. Running the same command on Ubuntu 18.04 results in a bootable image as expected To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1835477/+subscriptions
