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(Sorry, Rich, I managed to miss reply-all.) These VMDK files are difference files from a baseline VMDK file. I'm not familiar with ESX's storage, but the size indicators on these tell me they aren't raw. For a virtual disk that has 3.2GB of data in its current state, against 3.0GB of data in its baseline, the current state's .vmdk file is 200MB. --Alex On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at

Hi Bas, I'm not sure if this is of interest, but I also had issues with VM disk-image sparse-files (in my case KVM, rather than VMWare), which I've now resolved. http://www.finalcog.com/rsync-vm-sparse-inplace-kvm-vmware All the best, Chris Dew. P.S. Apologies for any breach of etiquette - I could not see Bas' email address on

If you accidentally point -i vmx at a disk image, it will try to load the whole thing into memory and crash. Catch this narrow case and print an error. However don't fail if ‘file’ is not installed or if we don't know what the file is. --- v2v/parse_vmx.ml | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/v2v/parse_vmx.ml b/v2v/parse_vmx.ml index 65d5a0edd..f6c34e2cf

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 snapshot they represent. So, from my experience, qemu does read disk

Just a quick fyi... We''ve recently added support for blktap along with support for managing virtual disks (disk file images). There are some difference from a linux dom0. This is available in b101 @ http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/sol_ex_dvd_1/ This allows you to create and manage vmdk and vdi (Virtual Box) disk files. By default, virt-install will now use a vmdk vdisk when

When using non-JSON disk notation, the disk will be the snapshot #2. Fixes commit e5946165c8ea78e0e91c4cfdb5e793526cd638e1. --- v2v/test-v2v-i-ova-snapshots.expected | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/v2v/test-v2v-i-ova-snapshots.expected b/v2v/test-v2v-i-ova-snapshots.expected index 97bce58ad..a64843b35 100644 --- a/v2v/test-v2v-i-ova-snapshots.expected +++

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 05:17:14PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote: > On Wednesday, 11 October 2017 15:25:26 CEST Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > If you accidentally point -i vmx at a disk image, it will try to load > > the whole thing into memory and crash. Catch this narrow case and > > print an error. > > > > However don't fail if ‘file’ is not installed or if we

Hi everyone, 1. I try to boot a raw image with hda under Xen hypervisor converted by VMWARE vmdk image with scsi, but fail to boot with error message “Error loading operating system” below”. Who can give me a favor? 2. Under vSphere, create a windows XP VM with scsi storage then install a windows XP to the SCSI storage called xp.vmdk in the VM via iso file. Can successfully

Hi dear all: I have browsed almost all architecture of libGuestFs and use it on Fedora 18. It really seems greate! However, 1. No virtual disk (*.vdi, *.vmdk...) based snashot analysis code Current LibGuestFs could recognize and virtual disk format (e.g. *.VDI) and the file syste inside it (e.g. NTFS ), but find no support for snapshot virtual disk. Virtual Machine such VirtualBox

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 07:02:40PM +0200, Roland Giesler wrote: > > System: > > $ cat /etc/issue > > Ubuntu 12.10 \n \l > > > > $ uname -a > > Linux Matt-HP 3.5.0-34-generic #55-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 6 20:20:19 UTC 2013 > > i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux > > > >

Very recent versions of tar (most probably as a consequence of CVE-2016-6321) may refuse archive members with '..', like the relative paths to upper level directories. Since these are just tests, simply copy the files in the temporary directories where tar (or zip as well) is run, so all the files are in the same directory. --- v2v/test-v2v-i-ova-formats.sh | 9 +++++----

Hi list, I have recently migrated to XCP from Vmware Server 2 and have run into issues importing the VM''s Following citrix''s guide I tried using XenCenter to do the import directly on the vmdk files this resulted in XenCenter logging this error: "Failed to import. ---> System.Exception: Failed to import virtual disk file. ---> System.Xml.XmlException: Root element

System: $ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 12.10 \n \l $ uname -a Linux Matt-HP 3.5.0-34-generic #55-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 6 20:20:19 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux I have a converted VMWare virtual machine which I converted by using: $ vmware2libvirt -f ./WinXPPro.vmx > WinXPPro.xml $ virsh -c qemu:///system define WinXPPro.xml After various efforts to start the machine, I changed some of the

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 files: add_drive guest-f001.vmdk

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:

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 lot. What do I do: - I am making a local copy with vmware-vdiskmanager to an USB disk in the split

Hi, Today I was trying to start a node using libvirt on ESX (esxi-5.1) hypervisor and I got the following error message: *virsh # define /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

I''ve just pushed vdiskadm import/export/convert 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

Greetings, yesterday I ran the VMware Standalone Converter on a physical WinXP-machine and generated a ~160 GB image file (vmdk). Transferred this to my gentoo QEMU/KVM host with libvirtd on it. app-emulation/libvirt-1.2.3 currently ... app-emulation/qemu-2.0.0 When I create a VM with this image in it, it only hangs there saying "Booting from hard disk" and generates CPU load on

I''ve just pushed vdiskadm translate to the 3.3 vdisk repo. You can now translate data from one virtual disk data type to another without creating a virtual disk. This allows the user to use a vmdk file and directly translate the data into a zvol without having to import it first to a vdisk and then export it to the zvol. # vdiskadm help translate translate - translate virtual disk data