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.

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?