Full VMDK Support... UHU!
Way to go dudes! ;)

On 4/20/07, Klaus Espenlaub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Helge Hielscher schrieb:
> > Is there a tool that can compact unregistered images?
>
> Unfortunately not. You're working with vditool, and the DD function
> always creates a fixed image. So you wouldn't be able to compact it. And
> no, there is no tool to convert a fixed into a sparse image or vice
> versa. It wouldn't be hard to do (just like editing the vditool source),
> but it's just not implemented yet.
>
> In principle compacting unregistered images is possible with "vditool
> SHRINK", but obviously this doesn't reduce the size for a fixed image.
> If you know what you're doing you can use a binary file editor and
> change the 2 at offset 0x4c to 1. After that it's a sparse image and you
> can compact it.
>
> > Is there a way to bypass the large vdi file in the conversion process, e.g
> > using sparse-file, convert and compact in one step?
>
> Right now this is not possible. And in one of the next versions the
> problem will hopefully become obsolete, as we're intending to have full
> vmdk support. So qemu-img should be able to convert VHD images directly
> to vmdk.
>
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> Klaus Espenlaub     InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH, http://www.innotek.de
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