Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img convert does not handle -O correctly

[Dean Payne]

Andreas Färber wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When running `qemu-img convert haikuware.vmdk -O qcow2 
> haikuware.qcow2` on OSX, it complains it cannot open '-O'.
>
> According to `qemu-img convert --help` my syntax is correct.
>
> Andreas

I had similar problems and needed to change the order of parameters on 
the command line.

For your statement try...

qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O qcow2 haikuware.vmdk haikuware.qcow2

... as -f and -O come first before filenames