[Qemu-devel] qemu-img convert to VMDK

[Guilherme Moro]

Hi,

I'm trying to convert some images from raw to vmdk to run in a ESXi6.5 
server but I need to rectify the image before being able to run.

The scenario goes like that:

qemu-img convert -f raw image.raw -O vmdk -o compat6 image.vmdk
ESXi complains with "Failed - File system specific implementation of 
LookupAndOpen"[file] failed
running vmkfstools -x repair on the image make it bootable

 I checked the changes, vmkfstools is basically removing the second 
descriptor from the end of the file, I'm not familiar enough with the 
code and the format to know what this means, maybe compat6 should make 
qemu-img avoid to put that in the end of the file (again, mostly guessing).

Anyway we would need an option to make sure that this second descriptor 
does not end in the final image.

Can anyone advise on that ?

Thanks,

Guillherme