On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 09:56:37AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > Please post the output of "qemu-img info Ubuntu.vmdk". I suspect this > image file is not being recognized as vmdk and is being treated as a > raw image, hence the literal copy of its 512-byte sector size > contents.
It's not. It's the "text" vmdk format which has nothing to do with the binary vmdk images. I really need to get back to my hacked up support for them and then them in. Until then vmware has a toolset to download on their website which allows to convert these into a single large binary vmdk file.
