On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 05:49:44PM -0400, Alexander Nelson wrote:
I've used QEMU to read .vmdk snapshots. The VM directory layout in my case (Fusion, and I've seen Workstation do the same) created a .vmdk file per snapshot, and qemu-img could use that .vmdk file and the base .vmdk to convert the disk image to a raw image. IIRC there is a manifest file that ties .vmdk files to the snapshot they represent.
So, from my experience, qemu does read disk snapshots in the .vmdk format. It might need a little extending to also look for and parse that manifest file, to treat a directory with .vmdk's as a snapshot tree.
Are these real VMDK files, or do you mean the "vmdk" files which are really raw that ESX produces? TBH I don't know a lot about the VDMK format, except that the specifications are intimidating. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW