Libguestfs - Apr 2010 - vmdk support by libguestfs in RHEL and upstream

Hi all,
As we are doing plan for testing libguestfs, I have a question about 
vmdk support for libguestfs. In Fedora 12, we can successfully manage a 
vmdk image via guestfish(add -> run -> mkfs -> mount -> ...). But in
RHEL6, for qemu-kvm can not boot with a vmdk image, libguestfs can not 
manage vmdk either.  So is it true that vmdk is only supported by 
upstream libguestfs but not the version in RHEL6?  Thanks.

--Yufang

On 28/04/10 08:58, Yufang Zhang wrote:
> Hi all,
> As we are doing plan for testing libguestfs, I have a question about
> vmdk support for libguestfs. In Fedora 12, we can successfully manage a
> vmdk image via guestfish(add -> run -> mkfs -> mount -> ...).
But in
> RHEL6, for qemu-kvm can not boot with a vmdk image, libguestfs can not
> manage vmdk either.  So is it true that vmdk is only supported by
> upstream libguestfs but not the version in RHEL6?  Thanks.
I haven't looked specifically, but it's more likely that qemu in RHEL 6
beta has been compiled without vmdk support. libguestfs itself doesn't
know anything about vmdk.

Matt
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