Carlo,

that's great! thank you very much. Avoiding installing VirtualBox in some
scenarios is a great win.

cheers,
Jaime


On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Carlo Daffara <
carlo.daff...@cloudweavers.eu> wrote:

> In alternative, this simple bash script converts from VMDK3 to VMDK2:
> https://github.com/erik-smit/one-liners/blob/master/qemu-img.vmdk3.hack.sh
> description here:
> http://carlos-spitzer.com/tag/image-uses-a-vmdk-feature-which-is-not-supported-by-this-qemu-version-vmdk-version-3/
> We use it with great results.
> cheers
> carlo daffara
> CloudWeavers
>
> ----- Messaggio originale -----
> Da: "Alvaro Simon" <asi...@cesga.es>
> A: "Jaime Melis" <jme...@opennebula.org>
> Cc: "Users OpenNebula" <users@lists.opennebula.org>
> Inviato: Giovedì, 10 aprile 2014 17:07:50
> Oggetto: Re: [one-users] OpenNebula and OVA files support
>
> Hi Jaime
> > Hi Alvaro,
> >
> > yes, we are aware of that issue. While we wait for a newer qemu-img
> > version, you may want to use VirtualBox instead of qemu-img for this
> task.
> > You would need to change this:
> >
> https://github.com/OpenNebula/addon-appmarket/blob/master/src/worker/lib/appliance_file_converter.rb#L7
> >
> > with VBoxManage scripts, something like: VBoxManage clonehd #{s} #{t}
> > --format VMDK
> Thanks a lot for the tip! we will use VBoxManage command meanwhile..
>
> Cheers
> Alvaro
> > cheers,
> > Jaime
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Alvaro Simon <asi...@cesga.es> wrote:
> >
> >> Dear all
> >>
> >> We are playing around with OVA files, some of them have VMDK version 3
> >> imges inside,  when you include a OVA file with oneimage, ON untar the
> file
> >> and creates a directory into the datastore, the question is if it will
> be
> >> suported the VMDK image conversion in ON in the future. I see that it
> >> exists a APP from appmarket to perform this action but It will be
> included
> >> into ON by default? We want to convert VMDK version 3 images to qcow or
> raw
> >> files to be used by KVM and this will help us to convert image files
> >> automatically. unfortunately old qemu-img versions does not support VMDK
> >> version 3 (in centos 6 as example).
> >>
> >> Cheers and thanks!
> >> Alvaro
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