(In reply to comment #11)
> I copied a vmdk file from ESX storage directly,and then use qemu-img to convert
> it to raw,it works.
> # qemu-img convert -O raw esx4.1-rhel5.7-i386-flat.vmdk test-vmdk.raw
> # ll test-vmdk.raw
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 8589934592 Feb 17 16:58 test-vmdk.raw
*-flat.vmdk files are not VMDK. They are just raw files
which happen to have a .vmdk extension. So this doesn't
really prove anything.
(In reply to comment #11) rhel5.7- i386-flat. vmdk test-vmdk.raw
> I copied a vmdk file from ESX storage directly,and then use qemu-img to convert
> it to raw,it works.
> # qemu-img convert -O raw esx4.1-
> # ll test-vmdk.raw
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 8589934592 Feb 17 16:58 test-vmdk.raw
*-flat.vmdk files are not VMDK. They are just raw files
which happen to have a .vmdk extension. So this doesn't
really prove anything.