Re: [Qemu-devel] vmdk: improve streamOptimized vmdk support

2016-04-19 Thread Fam Zheng 
On Sat, 04/09 14:19, devsk wrote:
> Fam,
> 
> Was this work ever completed?

Sorry Sunil, I haven't been able to finish this patch yet. I'll try to allocate
some time for it.

Fam

> 
> Thanks,
> Sunil
> 
> 
> 
> On Monday, April 20, 2015 11:10 PM, Fam Zheng  wrote:
> On Fri, 04/17 18:25, devsk wrote:
> > Fam: Any updates on this?
> 
> Hi, I'm still working on the patchset. Will send to the list once it's done.
> 
> 
> Fam
> 
> > Thanks 
> > 
> > 
> >  On Tuesday, March 3, 2015 12:54 AM, Fam Zheng  wrote:
> >
> > 
> >  On Tue, 03/03 09:36, Milos Vyletel wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 9:50 PM, Sunil Kumar  
> > > wrote:
> > > > Any update on this Milos?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > I did look at this yesterday and unfortunately it will be harder to
> > > adapt to new head as previously thought. Since the addition of
> > > next_cluster_sector (which is one of last Fam's comments in v3)
> > > writing to vmdk's revolve around sectors instead of offset and that
> > > does not work very well with streamOptimized format.
> > > 
> > > I'm sorry but I don't think I'll have enough time to spend in near
> > > future to get this properly working. Plus I no longer have the test
> > > environment since I've changed jobs in the meantime.
> > 
> > I'll see if I can roll some patches later. :)
> > 
> > Sunil, do you have an environment to run the tests later?
> > 
> > Fam
> > 
> > > 
> > > Milos
> > > 
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Monday, February 23, 2015 5:50 AM, Milos Vyletel 
> > > >  wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Kevin Wolf  wrote:
> > > >> Am 23.02.2015 um 09:10 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben:
> > > >>> Perhaps Fam (cc'ed) can help you.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Sunil Kumar  writes:
> > > >>>
> > > >>> [...]
> > > >>> > Hi,
> > > >>> >
> > > >>> > I ran into an issue where the OVA created from the VMDK file created
> > > >>> > by qemu-img is rejected by vSphere with a message like "Not a
> > > >>> > supported disk format (sparse VMDK too old)". I was looking through
> > > >>> > the archives and found this:
> > > >>> >
> > > >>> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-08/msg01028.html
> > > >>> >
> > > >>> > That's exactly my issue and the patch will resolve it. But this 
> > > >>> > patch
> > > >>> > has not been merged yet and it does not apply on top of 2.2.0
> > > >>> > cleanly. Any ideas what happened to the patch there?
> > > >>
> > > >> Fam had review comments in the mailing list thread that you refer to
> > > >> above, so it seems we're still waiting for a v4 patch by Milos that
> > > >> addresses the issues Fam found.
> > > >>
> > > >> Milos, are you still interested in this patch or should someone else
> > > >> pick it up?
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > Oh, shame on me. I've completely forgot about this. I did quickly
> > > > ported the patch to current upstream and did some basic testing.
> > > > Something is little bit off so I will have to figure that out as well
> > > > as look at Fam's comments and I will post v4 asap. I hope to find some
> > > > time to look at this properly this week.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Milos
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >
>

Re: [Qemu-devel] vmdk: improve streamOptimized vmdk support

2015-04-21 Thread Fam Zheng 
On Fri, 04/17 18:25, devsk wrote:
 Fam: Any updates on this?

Hi, I'm still working on the patchset. Will send to the list once it's done.

Fam

 Thanks 
 
 
  On Tuesday, March 3, 2015 12:54 AM, Fam Zheng f...@redhat.com wrote:

 
  On Tue, 03/03 09:36, Milos Vyletel wrote:
  On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 9:50 PM, Sunil Kumar internet_every...@yahoo.com 
  wrote:
   Any update on this Milos?
  
   Thanks.
  
  
  I did look at this yesterday and unfortunately it will be harder to
  adapt to new head as previously thought. Since the addition of
  next_cluster_sector (which is one of last Fam's comments in v3)
  writing to vmdk's revolve around sectors instead of offset and that
  does not work very well with streamOptimized format.
  
  I'm sorry but I don't think I'll have enough time to spend in near
  future to get this properly working. Plus I no longer have the test
  environment since I've changed jobs in the meantime.
 
 I'll see if I can roll some patches later. :)
 
 Sunil, do you have an environment to run the tests later?
 
 Fam
 
  
  Milos
  
  
  
   On Monday, February 23, 2015 5:50 AM, Milos Vyletel 
   milos.vyle...@gmail.com wrote:
   On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Kevin Wolf kw...@redhat.com wrote:
   Am 23.02.2015 um 09:10 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben:
   Perhaps Fam (cc'ed) can help you.
  
   Sunil Kumar internet_every...@yahoo.com writes:
  
   [...]
Hi,
   
I ran into an issue where the OVA created from the VMDK file created
by qemu-img is rejected by vSphere with a message like Not a
supported disk format (sparse VMDK too old). I was looking through
the archives and found this:
   
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-08/msg01028.html
   
That's exactly my issue and the patch will resolve it. But this patch
has not been merged yet and it does not apply on top of 2.2.0
cleanly. Any ideas what happened to the patch there?
  
   Fam had review comments in the mailing list thread that you refer to
   above, so it seems we're still waiting for a v4 patch by Milos that
   addresses the issues Fam found.
  
   Milos, are you still interested in this patch or should someone else
   pick it up?
  
  
   Oh, shame on me. I've completely forgot about this. I did quickly
   ported the patch to current upstream and did some basic testing.
   Something is little bit off so I will have to figure that out as well
   as look at Fam's comments and I will post v4 asap. I hope to find some
   time to look at this properly this week.
  
  
   Milos

Re: [Qemu-devel] vmdk: improve streamOptimized vmdk support

2015-04-17 Thread devsk 
Fam: Any updates on this?
Thanks 


 On Tuesday, March 3, 2015 12:54 AM, Fam Zheng f...@redhat.com wrote:
   

 On Tue, 03/03 09:36, Milos Vyletel wrote:
 On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 9:50 PM, Sunil Kumar internet_every...@yahoo.com 
 wrote:
  Any update on this Milos?
 
  Thanks.
 
 
 I did look at this yesterday and unfortunately it will be harder to
 adapt to new head as previously thought. Since the addition of
 next_cluster_sector (which is one of last Fam's comments in v3)
 writing to vmdk's revolve around sectors instead of offset and that
 does not work very well with streamOptimized format.
 
 I'm sorry but I don't think I'll have enough time to spend in near
 future to get this properly working. Plus I no longer have the test
 environment since I've changed jobs in the meantime.

I'll see if I can roll some patches later. :)

Sunil, do you have an environment to run the tests later?

Fam

 
 Milos
 
 
 
  On Monday, February 23, 2015 5:50 AM, Milos Vyletel 
  milos.vyle...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Kevin Wolf kw...@redhat.com wrote:
  Am 23.02.2015 um 09:10 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben:
  Perhaps Fam (cc'ed) can help you.
 
  Sunil Kumar internet_every...@yahoo.com writes:
 
  [...]
   Hi,
  
   I ran into an issue where the OVA created from the VMDK file created
   by qemu-img is rejected by vSphere with a message like Not a
   supported disk format (sparse VMDK too old). I was looking through
   the archives and found this:
  
   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-08/msg01028.html
  
   That's exactly my issue and the patch will resolve it. But this patch
   has not been merged yet and it does not apply on top of 2.2.0
   cleanly. Any ideas what happened to the patch there?
 
  Fam had review comments in the mailing list thread that you refer to
  above, so it seems we're still waiting for a v4 patch by Milos that
  addresses the issues Fam found.
 
  Milos, are you still interested in this patch or should someone else
  pick it up?
 
 
  Oh, shame on me. I've completely forgot about this. I did quickly
  ported the patch to current upstream and did some basic testing.
  Something is little bit off so I will have to figure that out as well
  as look at Fam's comments and I will post v4 asap. I hope to find some
  time to look at this properly this week.
 
 
  Milos

Re: [Qemu-devel] vmdk: improve streamOptimized vmdk support

2015-03-04 Thread Sunil Kumar 
I don't have a qemu dev test environment if that's what you mean. But I will 
definitely be able to take a patch and test to see if the created 
streamOptimized VMDK gets accepted by the ESXi server that I have here.

Thanks



On Tuesday, March 3, 2015 12:54 AM, Fam Zheng f...@redhat.com wrote:
On Tue, 03/03 09:36, Milos Vyletel wrote:
 On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 9:50 PM, Sunil Kumar internet_every...@yahoo.com 
 wrote:
  Any update on this Milos?
 
  Thanks.
 
 
 I did look at this yesterday and unfortunately it will be harder to
 adapt to new head as previously thought. Since the addition of
 next_cluster_sector (which is one of last Fam's comments in v3)
 writing to vmdk's revolve around sectors instead of offset and that
 does not work very well with streamOptimized format.
 
 I'm sorry but I don't think I'll have enough time to spend in near
 future to get this properly working. Plus I no longer have the test
 environment since I've changed jobs in the meantime.

I'll see if I can roll some patches later. :)

Sunil, do you have an environment to run the tests later?


Fam

 
 Milos
 
 
 
  On Monday, February 23, 2015 5:50 AM, Milos Vyletel 
  milos.vyle...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Kevin Wolf kw...@redhat.com wrote:
  Am 23.02.2015 um 09:10 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben:
  Perhaps Fam (cc'ed) can help you.
 
  Sunil Kumar internet_every...@yahoo.com writes:
 
  [...]
   Hi,
  
   I ran into an issue where the OVA created from the VMDK file created
   by qemu-img is rejected by vSphere with a message like Not a
   supported disk format (sparse VMDK too old). I was looking through
   the archives and found this:
  
   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-08/msg01028.html
  
   That's exactly my issue and the patch will resolve it. But this patch
   has not been merged yet and it does not apply on top of 2.2.0
   cleanly. Any ideas what happened to the patch there?
 
  Fam had review comments in the mailing list thread that you refer to
  above, so it seems we're still waiting for a v4 patch by Milos that
  addresses the issues Fam found.
 
  Milos, are you still interested in this patch or should someone else
  pick it up?
 
 
  Oh, shame on me. I've completely forgot about this. I did quickly
  ported the patch to current upstream and did some basic testing.
  Something is little bit off so I will have to figure that out as well
  as look at Fam's comments and I will post v4 asap. I hope to find some
  time to look at this properly this week.
 
 
  Milos

Re: [Qemu-devel] vmdk: improve streamOptimized vmdk support

2015-03-03 Thread Fam Zheng 
On Tue, 03/03 09:36, Milos Vyletel wrote:
 On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 9:50 PM, Sunil Kumar internet_every...@yahoo.com 
 wrote:
  Any update on this Milos?
 
  Thanks.
 
 
 I did look at this yesterday and unfortunately it will be harder to
 adapt to new head as previously thought. Since the addition of
 next_cluster_sector (which is one of last Fam's comments in v3)
 writing to vmdk's revolve around sectors instead of offset and that
 does not work very well with streamOptimized format.
 
 I'm sorry but I don't think I'll have enough time to spend in near
 future to get this properly working. Plus I no longer have the test
 environment since I've changed jobs in the meantime.

I'll see if I can roll some patches later. :)

Sunil, do you have an environment to run the tests later?

Fam

 
 Milos
 
 
 
  On Monday, February 23, 2015 5:50 AM, Milos Vyletel 
  milos.vyle...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Kevin Wolf kw...@redhat.com wrote:
  Am 23.02.2015 um 09:10 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben:
  Perhaps Fam (cc'ed) can help you.
 
  Sunil Kumar internet_every...@yahoo.com writes:
 
  [...]
   Hi,
  
   I ran into an issue where the OVA created from the VMDK file created
   by qemu-img is rejected by vSphere with a message like Not a
   supported disk format (sparse VMDK too old). I was looking through
   the archives and found this:
  
   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-08/msg01028.html
  
   That's exactly my issue and the patch will resolve it. But this patch
   has not been merged yet and it does not apply on top of 2.2.0
   cleanly. Any ideas what happened to the patch there?
 
  Fam had review comments in the mailing list thread that you refer to
  above, so it seems we're still waiting for a v4 patch by Milos that
  addresses the issues Fam found.
 
  Milos, are you still interested in this patch or should someone else
  pick it up?
 
 
  Oh, shame on me. I've completely forgot about this. I did quickly
  ported the patch to current upstream and did some basic testing.
  Something is little bit off so I will have to figure that out as well
  as look at Fam's comments and I will post v4 asap. I hope to find some
  time to look at this properly this week.
 
 
  Milos

Re: [Qemu-devel] vmdk: improve streamOptimized vmdk support

2015-03-03 Thread Milos Vyletel 
On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 9:50 PM, Sunil Kumar internet_every...@yahoo.com wrote:
 Any update on this Milos?

 Thanks.


I did look at this yesterday and unfortunately it will be harder to
adapt to new head as previously thought. Since the addition of
next_cluster_sector (which is one of last Fam's comments in v3)
writing to vmdk's revolve around sectors instead of offset and that
does not work very well with streamOptimized format.

I'm sorry but I don't think I'll have enough time to spend in near
future to get this properly working. Plus I no longer have the test
environment since I've changed jobs in the meantime.

Milos



 On Monday, February 23, 2015 5:50 AM, Milos Vyletel milos.vyle...@gmail.com 
 wrote:
 On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Kevin Wolf kw...@redhat.com wrote:
 Am 23.02.2015 um 09:10 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben:
 Perhaps Fam (cc'ed) can help you.

 Sunil Kumar internet_every...@yahoo.com writes:

 [...]
  Hi,
 
  I ran into an issue where the OVA created from the VMDK file created
  by qemu-img is rejected by vSphere with a message like Not a
  supported disk format (sparse VMDK too old). I was looking through
  the archives and found this:
 
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-08/msg01028.html
 
  That's exactly my issue and the patch will resolve it. But this patch
  has not been merged yet and it does not apply on top of 2.2.0
  cleanly. Any ideas what happened to the patch there?

 Fam had review comments in the mailing list thread that you refer to
 above, so it seems we're still waiting for a v4 patch by Milos that
 addresses the issues Fam found.

 Milos, are you still interested in this patch or should someone else
 pick it up?


 Oh, shame on me. I've completely forgot about this. I did quickly
 ported the patch to current upstream and did some basic testing.
 Something is little bit off so I will have to figure that out as well
 as look at Fam's comments and I will post v4 asap. I hope to find some
 time to look at this properly this week.


 Milos

Re: [Qemu-devel] vmdk: improve streamOptimized vmdk support

2015-03-01 Thread Sunil Kumar 
Any update on this Milos?

Thanks.



On Monday, February 23, 2015 5:50 AM, Milos Vyletel milos.vyle...@gmail.com 
wrote:
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Kevin Wolf kw...@redhat.com wrote:
 Am 23.02.2015 um 09:10 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben:
 Perhaps Fam (cc'ed) can help you.

 Sunil Kumar internet_every...@yahoo.com writes:

 [...]
  Hi,
 
  I ran into an issue where the OVA created from the VMDK file created
  by qemu-img is rejected by vSphere with a message like Not a
  supported disk format (sparse VMDK too old). I was looking through
  the archives and found this:
 
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-08/msg01028.html
 
  That's exactly my issue and the patch will resolve it. But this patch
  has not been merged yet and it does not apply on top of 2.2.0
  cleanly. Any ideas what happened to the patch there?

 Fam had review comments in the mailing list thread that you refer to
 above, so it seems we're still waiting for a v4 patch by Milos that
 addresses the issues Fam found.

 Milos, are you still interested in this patch or should someone else
 pick it up?


Oh, shame on me. I've completely forgot about this. I did quickly
ported the patch to current upstream and did some basic testing.
Something is little bit off so I will have to figure that out as well
as look at Fam's comments and I will post v4 asap. I hope to find some
time to look at this properly this week.


Milos

Re: [Qemu-devel] vmdk: improve streamOptimized vmdk support

2015-02-23 Thread Kevin Wolf 
Am 23.02.2015 um 09:10 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben:
 Perhaps Fam (cc'ed) can help you.
 
 Sunil Kumar internet_every...@yahoo.com writes:
 
 [...]
  Hi,
 
  I ran into an issue where the OVA created from the VMDK file created
  by qemu-img is rejected by vSphere with a message like Not a
  supported disk format (sparse VMDK too old). I was looking through
  the archives and found this:
 
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-08/msg01028.html
 
  That's exactly my issue and the patch will resolve it. But this patch
  has not been merged yet and it does not apply on top of 2.2.0
  cleanly. Any ideas what happened to the patch there?

Fam had review comments in the mailing list thread that you refer to
above, so it seems we're still waiting for a v4 patch by Milos that
addresses the issues Fam found.

Milos, are you still interested in this patch or should someone else
pick it up?

Kevin

Re: [Qemu-devel] vmdk: improve streamOptimized vmdk support

2015-02-23 Thread Milos Vyletel 
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Kevin Wolf kw...@redhat.com wrote:
 Am 23.02.2015 um 09:10 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben:
 Perhaps Fam (cc'ed) can help you.

 Sunil Kumar internet_every...@yahoo.com writes:

 [...]
  Hi,
 
  I ran into an issue where the OVA created from the VMDK file created
  by qemu-img is rejected by vSphere with a message like Not a
  supported disk format (sparse VMDK too old). I was looking through
  the archives and found this:
 
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-08/msg01028.html
 
  That's exactly my issue and the patch will resolve it. But this patch
  has not been merged yet and it does not apply on top of 2.2.0
  cleanly. Any ideas what happened to the patch there?

 Fam had review comments in the mailing list thread that you refer to
 above, so it seems we're still waiting for a v4 patch by Milos that
 addresses the issues Fam found.

 Milos, are you still interested in this patch or should someone else
 pick it up?


Oh, shame on me. I've completely forgot about this. I did quickly
ported the patch to current upstream and did some basic testing.
Something is little bit off so I will have to figure that out as well
as look at Fam's comments and I will post v4 asap. I hope to find some
time to look at this properly this week.

Milos

Re: [Qemu-devel] vmdk: improve streamOptimized vmdk support

2015-02-23 Thread Markus Armbruster 
Perhaps Fam (cc'ed) can help you.

Sunil Kumar internet_every...@yahoo.com writes:

[...]
 Hi,

 I ran into an issue where the OVA created from the VMDK file created
 by qemu-img is rejected by vSphere with a message like Not a
 supported disk format (sparse VMDK too old). I was looking through
 the archives and found this:

 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-08/msg01028.html

 That's exactly my issue and the patch will resolve it. But this patch
 has not been merged yet and it does not apply on top of 2.2.0
 cleanly. Any ideas what happened to the patch there?

 I will appreciate any help.

 -devsk

[Qemu-devel] vmdk: improve streamOptimized vmdk support

2015-02-22 Thread Sunil Kumar 
Hi,

I ran into an issue where the OVA created from the VMDK file created by 
qemu-img is rejected by vSphere with a message like Not a supported disk 
format (sparse VMDK too old). I was looking through the archives and found 
this:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-08/msg01028.html

That's exactly my issue and the patch will resolve it. But this patch has not 
been merged yet and it does not apply on top of 2.2.0 cleanly. Any ideas what 
happened to the patch there?

I will appreciate any help.

-devsk

Re: [Qemu-devel] vmdk: improve streamOptimized vmdk support

2015-02-22 Thread Sunil Kumar 
No idea why it ate the subject?

-devsk


internet_every...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi,

I ran into an issue where the OVA created from the VMDK file created by 
qemu-img is rejected by vSphere with a message like Not a supported disk 
format (sparse VMDK too old). I was looking through the archives and found 
this:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-08/msg01028.html

That's exactly my issue and the patch will resolve it. But this patch has not 
been merged yet and it does not apply on top of 2.2.0 cleanly. Any ideas what 
happened to the patch there?

I will appreciate any help.

-devsk