[Qemu-discuss] Problem converting from vmdk to raw format

2016-01-31 Thread Alexandre Schenberg
Hello, I tried to convert a .vmdk file to a raw file with this command: "qemu-img convert -f vmdk /media/windows/WinXP-disk1.vmdk winxp.raw" The result was: "qemu-img: Could not open '/media/windows/WinXP-disk1.vmdk" I am sure that the vmdk file, WinXP-disk1.vmdk it is in the dir /media/windows

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Problem converting from vmdk to raw format

2016-01-31 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 1/31/2016 10:53 PM, Alexandre Schenberg wrote: > Hello, I tried to convert a .vmdk file to a raw file with this > command: "qemu-img convert -f vmdk /media/windows/WinXP-disk1.vmdk > winxp.raw" > > The result was: "qemu-img: Could not open '/media/windows/WinXP-disk1.vmdk" > > I am sure that t

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Problem converting from vmdk to raw format

2016-01-31 Thread Fam Zheng
On Mon, 02/01 01:53, Alexandre Schenberg wrote: > Hello, I tried to convert a .vmdk file to a raw file with this > command: "qemu-img convert -f vmdk /media/windows/WinXP-disk1.vmdk > winxp.raw" > > The result was: "qemu-img: Could not open '/media/windows/WinXP-disk1.vmdk" > > I am sure that the

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Problem converting from vmdk to raw format

2016-01-31 Thread Alexandre Schenberg
thanks, was a permission problem, to change it solved the issue I have another doubt, converting it to raw generate a 126.9GB file. However df shows that the space used in the partition is only 8.x GB. And now I am converting the raw file to an iso file and the iso is really occupying space. S

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Problem converting from vmdk to raw format

2016-01-31 Thread Jakob Bohm
qemu-img used the "sparse file" feature of your file system to not actually allocate disk sectors for many of the all-zero blocks in the raw file. Your iso creation tool did not. On 01/02/2016 05:42, Alexandre Schenberg wrote: thanks, was a permission problem, to change it solved the issue I