On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 05:15:24PM -0600, Thierry Thelliez wrote:
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,...).
For VMDK we are very reliant on what qemu supports. QEmu's VMDK driver has numerous limitations (including silent data corruption). Therefore it's preferable to use the 'wget' method described in this posting to access ESX guests: http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/examine-vmware-esx-with-libguestfs/#con... (Or use vdiskmanager as you said.) Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora