Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img vmdk converted from iso not accepted by vSphere

2011-10-28 Thread Richard Wellum
I see one other report of the same thing on the vmware forums: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1839303 Thanks, ||Rich On Oct 28, 2011, at 5:17 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > Rich: Thanks for the ESXi 4.1.0 and vSphere Client 4.1.0 version info. > > Fam: Do you have any suggestions how to

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img vmdk converted from iso not accepted by vSphere

2011-10-28 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
Rich: Thanks for the ESXi 4.1.0 and vSphere Client 4.1.0 version info. Fam: Do you have any suggestions how to debug the "Error uploading file path/to/image.vmdk to server. Not a supported disk format (sparse VMDK version too old)" issue? Ideally qemu-img would create images that work with curre

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img vmdk converted from iso not accepted by vSphere

2011-10-26 Thread Richard Wellum
cheers,||RichOn Oct 26, 2011, at 3:43 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Rich Wellum wrote:On Oct 20, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Rich Wellum wrote:Hi Stefan,qemu-imgqemu-img version

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img vmdk converted from iso not accepted by vSphere

2011-10-26 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Rich Wellum wrote: > > On Oct 20, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Rich Wellum wrote: >>> Hi Stefan, qemu-img >>> qemu-img version 0.15.50, Copyright (c) 2004-2008 Fabrice Bellard >>> I haven't got this to work o

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img vmdk converted from iso not accepted by vSphere

2011-10-20 Thread Rich Wellum
On Oct 20, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Rich Wellum wrote: >> Hi Stefan, >>> qemu-img >> qemu-img version 0.15.50, Copyright (c) 2004-2008 Fabrice Bellard >> I haven't got this to work on any version - I was trying this version >> because of the ex

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img vmdk converted from iso not accepted by vSphere

2011-10-20 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Rich Wellum wrote: > Hi Stefan, >> qemu-img > qemu-img version 0.15.50, Copyright (c) 2004-2008 Fabrice Bellard > I haven't got this to work on any version - I was trying this version > because of the expanded list of sub format versions - I thought one of them >

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img vmdk converted from iso not accepted by vSphere

2011-10-20 Thread Rich Wellum
Hi Stefan, > qemu-img qemu-img version 0.15.50, Copyright (c) 2004-2008 Fabrice Bellard I haven't got this to work on any version - I was trying this version because of the expanded list of sub format versions - I thought one of them might be accepted. Thanks, ||Rich On Oct 20, 2011, at 1:50

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img vmdk converted from iso not accepted by vSphere

2011-10-20 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Rich Wellum wrote: > When I convert an ISO to a VMDk and try to deploy it as part of an OVF > package in vSphere I get the following error: > > I've tried: > qemu-img convert -O vmdk image.iso image.vmdk > qemu-img convert -f raw image.iso -O vmdk image.vmdk > I'm

[Qemu-devel] qemu-img vmdk converted from iso not accepted by vSphere

2011-10-20 Thread Rich Wellum
Hi,Apologies in advance if I shouldn't be asking here - I can't find a dedicated forum.When I convert an ISO to a VMDk and try to deploy it as part of an OVF package in vSphere I get the following error:I've tried:qemu-img convert -O vmdk image.iso image.vmdkqemu-img convert -f raw image.iso -O vmd