Bug#783190: ITP: vmdktool -- Converts raw filesystems to VMDK files and vice versa.

["Glenn Matthews (glmatthe)" <glmatthe@cisco.com>]

On 4/24/15 7:57 AM, "Tollef Fog Heen" <tfheen@err.no> wrote:

>]] Glenn Matthews 
>
>> VMDK files can be imported directly into most Virtual Machine servers
>> as guest filesystems.  Automatic machine deployments into products
>> such as VMware's ESXi and VirtualBox requires the ability to construct
>> VMDK files as the initial filesystem images for the created guests.
>
>Does this do anything qemu-img does not?

As of qemu-img 2.1, it does not. However, older versions of qemu-img do
not support the "streamOptimized" VMDK sub-format that ESXi prefers, so
I've had to use vmdktool to convert to/from that format. vmdktool seems to
build on older systems that don't necessarily support qemu 2.1.

Thanks,

Glenn