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With VMWare (server), you can pre-allocate your image in several vmdk files. But I have not bee able to mount that in guestfs. On file (e.g. guest.vmdk) is a text file pointing to all the other files (e.g. guest-f001.vmdk, guest-f002.vmdk,...). I tried the following scenarios without success: 1- just adding the base vmdk: add_drive guest.vmdk 2- adding all the fil...

...inXPPro.xml > > You're using 'qemu:///system' here which is a privileged instance > of libvirt, where the QEMU process runs as a dedicated user ID. > > > <disk type='file' device='disk'> > > <driver name='qemu' type='vmdk'/> > > <source file='/home/roland/WinXPPro/WinXPPro.vmdk'/> > > <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/> > > <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/> > >...

...wo-disks.sh | 3 ++- 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/v2v/test-v2v-i-ova-formats.sh b/v2v/test-v2v-i-ova-formats.sh index d113994..ab15f32 100755 --- a/v2v/test-v2v-i-ova-formats.sh +++ b/v2v/test-v2v-i-ova-formats.sh @@ -59,21 +59,22 @@ pushd $d truncate -s 10k disk1.vmdk sha=`do_sha1 disk1.vmdk` echo -e "SHA1(disk1.vmdk)= $sha\r" > disk1.mf +cp ../test-v2v-i-ova-formats.ovf . for format in $formats; do case "$format" in tar) - tar -cf test-$format.ova ../test-v2v-i-ova-formats.ovf disk1.vmdk disk1.mf +...

...ry well, but when I defragment the VM's (once a week) or Exchange defragments it's datastore the disk layout changes offcourse and sometimes a lot. What do I do: - I am making a local copy with vmware-vdiskmanager to an USB disk in the split "thin-disk" format of the vmdk's - Then I start rsync to our datacenter to replicate the split "thin-disk" vmdk's What happens: Sometimes, because of the defragment within the VM or Exchange, the disk layout changes so much that a split .vmdk file that was very little and now becomes filled with...

...changes were: <domain type='kvm'> to <domain type='qemu'> and <emulator>/usr/bin/kvm</emulator> to <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-i386</emulator> and whatever it was before (i guess type 'raw') to <driver name='qemu' type='vmdk'/> Now "virsh edit WinXPPro" gives me: <domain type='qemu'> <name>WinXPPro</name> <uuid>8f83332d-d1c7-4ca9-a171-48823aeb30a8</uuid> <memory unit='KiB'>1048576</memory> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>104857...

...to the 3.3 vdisk and vbox repos. You can now import a disk image from a block device or file to a vdisk, convert (in place) to a different type of vdisk and export from a vdisk to a block device or file. I''ve also pushed the full vhd support (sparse and fixed) and the ability to import a vmdk 1.1 optimized stream file. An optimized stream file is readonly and must be imported to another type (vmdk:sparse by default) in order to be used as a vdisk. Currently, there is no support for exporting a vmdk 1.1 optimized stream file. Thanks, Susan ------------------------------ Examples: He...

.../local/myNode/esxdomain.xml* *Domain testNode defined from /local/myNode/esxdomain.xml* *virsh # start testNode* *error: Failed to start domain testNode* *error: internal error: Could not start domain: GenericVmConfigFault - Cannot open the disk /vmfs/volues/5208f99d-760cf4a2-000c29520788/testNode.vmdk or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.* * * * * I checked the datastore of my ESX server and found out that instead of file one directory is getting created with the name* cluster.vmdk *and inside it there are few more files but cluster.vmdk file is not there. * * /vmfs/volumes # cd datastore1...

Hi all, I have a RHEL6.1 qemu-kvm hypervisor running a raw image that I need for various reasons to convert to vmdk. I used this process: qemu-img convert server3.img -O vmdk server3.vmdk Then I edited the XML file (/etc/libvirt/qemu/server3.xml) like so: <devices> <emulator>/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm</emulator> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu...

I've used QEMU to read .vmdk snapshots. The VM directory layout in my case (Fusion, and I've seen Workstation do the same) created a .vmdk file per snapshot, and qemu-img could use that .vmdk file and the base .vmdk to convert the disk image to a raw image. IIRC there is a manifest file that ties .vmdk files to the snapsh...

Thanks a ton for the reply Matthias. I am little confused here. How to add volume on my esx server using virsh? I did SCP and copied my vmdk image to [datastore1] testNode/cluster.vmdk and also modified my xml file as you suggested. Now when I tried starting the node it gave me an error message saying: "error: Failed to start testNode error: internal error: Could not start domain: GenericVmConfigFault - Failed to start the virtua...

Dear All, While trying to run kvm VM using vmdk disk on 6.4 , I got into the following error, error: Failed to create domain from vmdkvm.xml error: internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: qemu-kvm: -drive file=/mnt/vmdkTOKVM/vmdkTOKVM.vmdk,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=vmdk,cache=none: 'vmdk' invalid format upon f...

...' email address on http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20090318.080211.28dac829.en.html so I've replied via this list. In reply to: Author:?Bas Bahlmann || Steady IT Systeembeheer Date:?2009-03-18?08:022009-03-18 08:02?-000UTC To:?rsync Subject:?Is it possible to make rsync VMware split .vmdk's aware? Hi, I am using rsync for my customers to have disaster recovery off-site with files from a VMware Server (under Linux). All works very well, but when I defragment the VM's (once a week) or Exchange defragments it's datastore the disk layout changes offcourse and sometimes a...

Does libvirt support snapshotting when the virtual disk comes from a vmdk file? http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Snapshots#Desired_functionality seems to say no, since it says "'virsh snapshot', which requires all disk images to be qcow2". OTOH, man virsh, http://libvirt.org/formatsnapshot.html, and http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsDisks see...

In case the appliance is disabled at configure, then all the phony guests will not be built during the 'make check' time. Since the tests already handle an empty windows.vmdk fine (in case ntfs-3g is not available), then just create it empty in this case. Reported by: Martin Kletzander. --- v2v/Makefile.am | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/v2v/Makefile.am b/v2v/Makefile.am index a96166e49..d8a7487f3 100644 --- a/v2v/Makefile.am +++ b/v2v/Makefil...

This series fixes and enhances parsing of the OVA manifest file. The changes are: - Added mandatory space to the regexp - Process all lines in the file, not just one - Warn on improperly formated lines - Support SHA256 hashes v4 -> v5: - fix tests - change one test to include the SHA256 checksum Tomáš Golembiovský (2): v2v: ova: fix checking of the manifest file v2v: ova: support SHA256

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 l...

Good evening, I understand that NTFS & VMDK do not relate to Solaris or ZFS, but I was wondering if anyone has any experience of checking the alignment of data blocks through that stack? I have a VMware ESX 4.0 host using storage presented over NFS from ZFS filesystems (recordsize 4KB). Within virtual machine VMDK files, I have formatted NT...

Good afternoon, I was wondering if anyone has any in site as to how to import a VMware vmdk into xVM on OpenSolaris 2009.06 (xVM 3.1). I have a VMware VM created on VMware Server 2.0 and would like to move it over to this xVM server. I appreciate any advice anyone may have. Cheers, -Chris -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

If an ESX guest has a snapshot, the path the libvirt driver gives us will look like: [yellow:storage1] RHEL4-X/RHEL4-X-000003.vmdk instead of: [yellow:storage1] RHEL4-X/RHEL4-X.vmdk The current path mangling code does take this into account. This change makes it use the current mechanism first, but try again after removing a '-\d+' suffix if it gets a 404. Trying twice should make it continue to work in the event th...

On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 02:35:51AM +0000, Boylan, Ross wrote: > Does libvirt support snapshotting when the virtual disk comes from a > vmdk file? >From my quick test (refer below), seems like you can at-least use VMDK as a backing file. > http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Snapshots#Desired_functionality seems to > say no, since it says "'virsh snapshot', which requires all disk > images to be qcow2". > &gt...