Re: K16 QEmu Image available

[Hiroyuki Yamamoto <yama1066@gmail.com>]

Michael Banck wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 02:59:01PM +0000, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> Hiroyuki Yamamoto, le Thu 03 Jan 2008 23:52:41 +0900, a écrit :
>>> If possible, could you support VMware image officially?
>> Well, Michael called it a "qemu" image, but actually that's just a
>> generic disk image with no particular qemu part in it, so I guess vmware
>> should be just fine with it too.
> 
> Apparently not - VMWare insists on having a proper VM image for it.  The
> main reason (non-VMWare) people I asked came up with for that was that
> Windows doesn't support sparse disk images.



Indeed, I converted qemu image to vmware one by as following command:
$ qemu-img convert debian-hurd-k16-qemu.img -O vmdk
debian-hurd-k16-qemu.vmdk
And it booted successfully.

Thanks,
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Hiroyuki