qemu-img: 'image' uses a vmdk feature which is not supported by this qemu version: VMDK version 3

[Patrick Schleizer]

qemu-img convert in.vmdk -O RAW out.img

Fails with:
qemu-img: 'image' uses a vmdk feature which is not supported by this qemu version: VMDK version 3

qemu-img version 1.6.1

[Stefan Hajnoczi (stefanha)]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 11:00:14PM -0000, adrelanos wrote:
> qemu-img convert in.vmdk -O RAW out.img
>
> Fails with:
> qemu-img: 'image' uses a vmdk feature which is not supported by this qemu version: VMDK version 3
>
> qemu-img version 1.6.1

This is a known issue. VMware has not released the file format
specification for VMDK version 3. At this point the information needed
to implement version 3 support is not publicly available.

If you are aware of open source software which already supports version
3, please let us know!

Fam: Do you have instructions for exporting version 2 images from
VMware?

Stefan

[Patrick Schleizer (adrelanos)]

> If you are aware of open source software which already supports version 3, please let us know!

VirtualBox can.

- VirtualBox uses VMDK version 3 disks.
- When you export a VM with VirtualBox (creating an .ova), it will include VMDK version 3 disks.
- VirtualBox can convert from vmkd to vdi. ('VBoxManage clonehd --format VDI "vmdk_file" "vdi_file"')

Does that help?

[Fam Zheng (famz)]

On Sat, 01/07 21:36, Patrick Schleizer wrote:
> > If you are aware of open source software which already supports
> version 3, please let us know!
>
> VirtualBox can.
>
> - VirtualBox uses VMDK version 3 disks.
> - When you export a VM with VirtualBox (creating an .ova), it will include VMDK version 3 disks.
> - VirtualBox can convert from vmkd to vdi. ('VBoxManage clonehd --format VDI "vmdk_file" "vdi_file"')
>
> Does that help?

Can you try again with QEMU 2.8? Recent versions of QEMU should be able to
handle version 3 VMDK disks.

Fam

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