qemu-img fails to convert VMDK image

[Cristian Ciupitu]

Download raw learn_puppet_centos_pe2.5.1_ovf.2012.04.18-disk1.vmdk [1] then try to convert it to a more suitable format for qemu-kvm, e.g. raw:

$ qemu-img convert -O raw learn_puppet_centos_pe2.5.1_ovf.2012.04.18-disk1.vmdk learn_puppet_centos_pe2.5.1_ovf.2012.04.18-disk1.raw
qemu-img: error while reading sector 131072: Invalid argument

The error happens with both qemu-img-1.0-17.fc17.x86_64 and the latest git master version (c3cdc1b0ff84d1cfed0c8052d2c83f8ecbf24166; thanks go to kwolf for testing it).

Additional info:
$ qemu-img info learn_puppet_centos_pe2.5.1_ovf.2012.04.18-disk1.vmdk image: learn_puppet_centos_pe2.5.1_ovf.2012.04.18-disk1.vmdk
file format: vmdk
virtual size: 4.0G (4294967296 bytes)
disk size: 537M

[1] http://downloads.puppetlabs.com/learning/learn_puppet_centos_pe2.5.1_ovf.2012.04.18.zip (516 MB)

[Kevin Wolf (kwolf-redhat)]

This should be fixed as of commit 65bd155c (included in 1.2.0-rc1).

[Cristian Ciupitu (ciupicri)]

It works fine for me with git version de188751da8db3c77a681bf903035a0e5218c463 (it's post 1.2.0-rc1).