[one-users] OpenNebula and OVA files support

[Alvaro Simon]

Hi Jaime
> Hi Alvaro,
>
> yes, we are aware of that issue. While we wait for a newer qemu-img
> version, you may want to use VirtualBox instead of qemu-img for this task.
> You would need to change this:
> https://github.com/OpenNebula/addon-appmarket/blob/master/src/worker/lib/appliance_file_converter.rb#L7
>
> with VBoxManage scripts, something like: VBoxManage clonehd #{s} #{t}
> --format VMDK
Thanks a lot for the tip! we will use VBoxManage command meanwhile..

Cheers
Alvaro
> cheers,
> Jaime
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Alvaro Simon <asimon at cesga.es> wrote:
>
>> Dear all
>>
>> We are playing around with OVA files, some of them have VMDK version 3
>> imges inside,  when you include a OVA file with oneimage, ON untar the file
>> and creates a directory into the datastore, the question is if it will be
>> suported the VMDK image conversion in ON in the future. I see that it
>> exists a APP from appmarket to perform this action but It will be included
>> into ON by default? We want to convert VMDK version 3 images to qcow or raw
>> files to be used by KVM and this will help us to convert image files
>> automatically. unfortunately old qemu-img versions does not support VMDK
>> version 3 (in centos 6 as example).
>>
>> Cheers and thanks!
>> Alvaro
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