I'm having same issue, I know there is enough space because df -h shows 198G 
available and qemu-img-xen info image.vmdk shows that the virtual disk size is 
8G


On Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 6:39:18 AM UTC-5, TheGrandQubes wrote:
> How do you know there is enough space? 
> 
> 
> If the vmdk file is 30 GB, but the disk is configured as a 250GB disk in 
> VirtualBox/VMWare, you need at least 250GB of free space to do the conversion.
> 
> 
> Could this be the case for you?
> 
> 
> After I did the conversion, the rwa file "size" was 250GB and the "size on 
> disk" 30 GB! 
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> On Saturday, 30 January 2016 00:37:58 UTC, Adrian Rocha  wrote:
> Hi people,
> 
> 
> I'm trying to convert a virtualbox disk to Xen raw format, but I'm having an 
> error:
> 
> 
> 
> [user@dom0 ~]$ qemu-img-xen convert -O raw RI_IP2-disk1.vmdk RI_IP2-disk1.raw
> qemu-img: error while writing
> [user@dom0 ~]$ qemu-img-xen convert -f vmdk -O raw RI_IP2-disk1.vmdk 
> RI_IP2-disk1.raw
> qemu-img: error while writing
> 
> 
> ll
> -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 31739346944 ene 29 18:28 RI_IP2-disk1.raw
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 31739346944 ene 29 18:27 RI_IP2-disk1.vmdk
> 
> 
> The process fails selecting other formats too:
> 
> 
> [user@dom0 ~]$ qemu-img-xen convert -f vmdk -O qcow2 RI_IP2-disk1.vmdk 
> RI_IP2-disk1.raw
> qemu-img: error while writing
> 
> 
> I have enough space in the file system to write the file
> 
> 
> Any ideas about this issue?
> 
> 
> Regards

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