[one-users] OpenNebula and OVA files support

[Carlo Daffara]

In alternative, this simple bash script converts from VMDK3 to VMDK2:
https://github.com/erik-smit/one-liners/blob/master/qemu-img.vmdk3.hack.sh
description here: http://carlos-spitzer.com/tag/image-uses-a-vmdk-feature-which-is-not-supported-by-this-qemu-version-vmdk-version-3/
We use it with great results.
cheers
carlo daffara
CloudWeavers

----- Messaggio originale -----
Da: "Alvaro Simon" <asimon at cesga.es>
A: "Jaime Melis" <jmelis at opennebula.org>
Cc: "Users OpenNebula" <users at lists.opennebula.org>
Inviato: Giovedì, 10 aprile 2014 17:07:50
Oggetto: Re: [one-users] OpenNebula and OVA files support

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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>
>

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