Comment 3 for bug 1253465

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Fam Zheng (famz) wrote : Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1253465] Re: qemu-img: 'image' uses a vmdk feature which is not supported by this qemu version: VMDK version 3

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