Hi Stefan,
I have uploaded a patch - I am failing miserably to get any output from git
patch!!!!!! ...  :^( . the code is structured to addres the fact that
convert will not work today, needs lots of work to do this. This would be
next effort.

i have a sub branch ...
root@rhubbard qemu]# git status
# On branch vmdk.c
# Untracked files:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
#
#    myoutput
#    rhubbard-patch-fix-vmdk

did a commit .. and here is git show..., don't know what to do next... i
have used cvs et all.. don't know why this is not working 4 Me...

commit 971ad8e198fa386214d8154904facbce2719fb06
Author: root <root@rhubbard.(none)>
Date:   Mon Dec 3 17:11:28 2012 -0800

    Bug#1075252 by Robert Hubbard: Fixed problems with StreammOptimized
open, needs more work for convert.

diff --git a/block.h b/block.h
index 78ecfac..1f55f6d 100644
--- a/block.h
+++ b/block.h
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ typedef struct BlockDriverInfo {
     int cluster_size;
     /* offset at which the VM state can be saved (0 if not possible) */
     int64_t vm_state_offset;
+    int drv_type;
+    const char *drv_work;
 } BlockDriverInfo;



On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi <<email address hidden>
> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Robert Hubbard
> <email address hidden> wrote:
> > Duplicate - Same issue related to header/footer - When does the code fix
> > show up in the git release train ?
> >
> > bug 907063 .
>
> The bug reporter did not follow the steps for submitting a patch that I
> posted:
>
> http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
>
> Therefore the patch never reached the <email address hidden> mailing
> list and was not merged.
>
> If you'd like to submit your patch please follow the steps on the wiki
> page above.
>
> Thanks,
> Stefan
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1075252
>
> Title:
>   qemu-img cannot  read VMDK4 file
>
> Status in QEMU:
>   New
>
> Bug description:
>   Unable to  read any vmdk4 type files. Goal was to convert to a qcow2,
>   this worked after emitting code.
>
>   OS is  Centos linux 2.6.32. I pulled the latest git tree down for qemu
>   to see if this was resolved, it is not.
>
>   Starting program: /home/rhubbard/QEMU/qemu/qemu-img info -f vmdk
>   /root/Juniper/beta1candidate-07122012-disk1.vmdk
>
>
>   There seems a mismatch with the l1_backup_tble_offset.  this is now a
> uint64 type.  The value is actually "-512" because of this and this causes
> the code check at line 418 in vmdk.c to erroneously  think there is a
> backup table. This causes vmdk open to fail.
>   and message
>   qemu failed to open ....
>
>
>   from debug;
>   gdb) x/4x &(s->l1_backup_table_offset)
>   0xa61cd0:     0xfffffe00      0xffffffff      0x00a62770      0x00000000
>
>   (gdb) p *s
>   $1 = {hd = 0x0, l1_table_offset = 0, l1_backup_table_offset = -512,
> l1_table = 0xa62770,
>     l1_backup_table = 0x0, l1_size = 64, l1_entry_sectors = 65536, l2_size
> = 512, l2_cache = 0x0,
>     l2_cache_offsets = {0 <repeats 16 times>}, l2_cache_counts = {0
> <repeats 16 times>},
>     cluster_sectors = 128, parent_cid = 4294967295}
>
>   typedef struct BDRVVmdkState {
>       BlockDriverState *hd;
>       int64_t l1_table_offset;
>  <==== ??? - what should this be , don't know what the actual layout on the
> vmdk spec says , is this a 64bit / 8 byte field ?
>
>       int64_t l1_backup_table_offset;
>       uint32_t *l1_table;
>       uint32_t *l1_backup_table;
>       unsigned int l1_size;
>       uint32_t l1_entry_sectors;
>
>       unsigned int l2_size;
>
>   from vmdk.c
>       /*!!!  if (s->l1_backup_table_offset) {
>           s->l1_backup_table = qemu_malloc(l1_size);
>           if (bdrv_pread(bs->file, s->l1_backup_table_offset,
> s->l1_backup_table, l1_size) != l1_size)
>               goto fail;
>
>   Breaks here..
>
>   Don't know the correct fix , thanks for help.
>
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-- 
Regards

Rob Hubbard