On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Yannick Charbonneau <[email protected]>wrote:
> I think I figured it out…**** > > ** ** > > It appears the qemu-img distributed with CentOS 6 is old and doesn’t > support multi file .vmdks convert.**** > > ** ** > > I recompiled the latest version and it copied/converted the .vmdks > properly.**** > > ** ** > > I am now facing a problem with libguestfs, NOT recognizing the OS inside > the .qcow2. Again, I think this is due to older release of libguestfs. > What problem is that? Most of the issue I run into converting vmware to OpenStack/KVM is the lack of virtio drivers. Is that what you mean? Thanks, Curtis. > **** > > ** ** > > What distro are you guys using for libvirt hosts?**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Yannick Charbonneau [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, November 08, 2012 9:47 PM > *To:* <[email protected]> > *Subject:* libvirt qemu-img**** > > ** ** > > Hi All,**** > > **** > > We have a vorking vcl 2.3 + esxi setup working.**** > > **** > > We are now trying out a libvirt host. We have the host up but we are > having issues deploying our vmare images on it.**** > > **** > > It appears be related with multiple files .vmdks disks and qemu-img > convert. The resulting qcow2 file is way too small, and the vm fails to > boot saying disk is NOT bootable.**** > > **** > > If I take a -flat.vmdk image and convert it, I can boot the vm manually in > virt-manager.**** > > **** > > Anybody has seen this?**** > > **** > > Thanks**** > > **** > > Yanik **** > -- Twitter: @serverascode Blog: serverascode.com
