On 28/04/10 10:39, Yufang Zhang wrote:
On 04/28/2010 05:15 PM, Matthew Booth wrote:
> On 28/04/10 08:58, Yufang Zhang wrote:
>
>> 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 libguestfs but not the version in RHEL6? Thanks.
>>
> I haven't looked specifically, but it's more likely that qemu in RHEL 6
> beta has been compiled without vmdk support. libguestfs itself doesn't
> know anything about vmdk.
>
> Matt
>
So in RHEL6, virt-v2v must first convert vmdk format image into qcow2
format image, and then do other converting, because libguestfs in RHEL6
cannot manage vmdk image directly?
No. virt-v2v never needs to touch vmdk files because it downloads raw
storage from an ESX server.
Matt
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