Re: [openstack-dev] question regarding vmdk file format for baremetal provisioning

2013-10-21 Thread Ravikanth Samprathi
The vmdk i have is from a VM that has not been partitioned, does it mean, it will not work? Meaning, i cannot use an off the shelf kernel, ramdisk and use the qcow2-converted-image-from-vmdk? Thanks Ravi On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Robert Collins wrote: > You'll need a format qemu-img supp

Re: [openstack-dev] question regarding vmdk file format for baremetal provisioning

2013-10-21 Thread Robert Collins
You'll need a format qemu-img supports; diskimage-builder outputs qcow2 by default, for instance. Also note it must be a partition image, not a full disk image. Cheers, Rob On 22 October 2013 16:15, Ravikanth Samprathi wrote: > Hi > Am using a vmdk file for provisioning baremetal. But the nova

[openstack-dev] question regarding vmdk file format for baremetal provisioning

2013-10-21 Thread Ravikanth Samprathi
Hi Am using a vmdk file for provisioning baremetal. But the nova failed with nova-compute log having the following message: ERROR nova.compute.manager . Unexpected error while running command qemu-img convert error while reading sector 131072 Invalid argument. Can someone provide some