<div dir="ltr">Carlo,<div><br></div><div>that's great! thank you very much. Avoiding installing VirtualBox in some scenarios is a great win.</div><div><br></div><div>cheers,<br>Jaime</div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Carlo Daffara <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:carlo.daffara@cloudweavers.eu" target="_blank">carlo.daffara@cloudweavers.eu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
In alternative, this simple bash script converts from VMDK3 to VMDK2:<br>
<a href="https://github.com/erik-smit/one-liners/blob/master/qemu-img.vmdk3.hack.sh" target="_blank">https://github.com/erik-smit/one-liners/blob/master/qemu-img.vmdk3.hack.sh</a><br>
description here: <a href="http://carlos-spitzer.com/tag/image-uses-a-vmdk-feature-which-is-not-supported-by-this-qemu-version-vmdk-version-3/" target="_blank">http://carlos-spitzer.com/tag/image-uses-a-vmdk-feature-which-is-not-supported-by-this-qemu-version-vmdk-version-3/</a><br>
We use it with great results.<br>
cheers<br>
carlo daffara<br>
CloudWeavers<br>
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----- Messaggio originale -----<br>
Da: "Alvaro Simon" <<a href="mailto:asimon@cesga.es">asimon@cesga.es</a>><br>
A: "Jaime Melis" <<a href="mailto:jmelis@opennebula.org">jmelis@opennebula.org</a>><br>
Cc: "Users OpenNebula" <<a href="mailto:users@lists.opennebula.org">users@lists.opennebula.org</a>><br>
Inviato: Giovedì, 10 aprile 2014 17:07:50<br>
Oggetto: Re: [one-users] OpenNebula and OVA files support<br>
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Hi Jaime<br>
> Hi Alvaro,<br>
><br>
> yes, we are aware of that issue. While we wait for a newer qemu-img<br>
> version, you may want to use VirtualBox instead of qemu-img for this task.<br>
> You would need to change this:<br>
> <a href="https://github.com/OpenNebula/addon-appmarket/blob/master/src/worker/lib/appliance_file_converter.rb#L7" target="_blank">https://github.com/OpenNebula/addon-appmarket/blob/master/src/worker/lib/appliance_file_converter.rb#L7</a><br>
><br>
> with VBoxManage scripts, something like: VBoxManage clonehd #{s} #{t}<br>
> --format VMDK<br>
Thanks a lot for the tip! we will use VBoxManage command meanwhile..<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
Alvaro<br>
> cheers,<br>
> Jaime<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Alvaro Simon <<a href="mailto:asimon@cesga.es">asimon@cesga.es</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Dear all<br>
>><br>
>> We are playing around with OVA files, some of them have VMDK version 3<br>
>> imges inside, when you include a OVA file with oneimage, ON untar the file<br>
>> and creates a directory into the datastore, the question is if it will be<br>
>> suported the VMDK image conversion in ON in the future. I see that it<br>
>> exists a APP from appmarket to perform this action but It will be included<br>
>> into ON by default? We want to convert VMDK version 3 images to qcow or raw<br>
>> files to be used by KVM and this will help us to convert image files<br>
>> automatically. unfortunately old qemu-img versions does not support VMDK<br>
>> version 3 (in centos 6 as example).<br>
>><br>
>> Cheers and thanks!<br>
>> Alvaro<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>Jaime Melis<br>Project Engineer<br>OpenNebula - Flexible Enterprise Cloud Made Simple<br><a href="http://www.OpenNebula.org" target="_blank">www.OpenNebula.org</a> | <a href="mailto:jmelis@opennebula.org" target="_blank">jmelis@opennebula.org</a></div>
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