Bug 1043359

Summary:	qemu-img needs to support adapter-type
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Alves <sales>
Component:	qemu	Assignee:	Fedora Virtualization Maintainers <virt-maint>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	20	CC:	amit.shah, berrange, cfergeau, crobinso, dwmw2, itamar, pbonzini, rjones, scottt.tw, virt-maint
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Description Alves 2013-12-16 05:19:22 UTC

Description of problem:
This bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1232348 shows my problem. All images convert from any format to vmdk are unbootable. But I found in that bug that there is a version of qemu that adds -adapter-type to the options of qemu-img convert. According to the bug, qemu version 1.4 and above have this feature. But I am using qemu-1.6.1-2.fc20.x86_64 and qemu-img-1.6.1-2.fc20.x86_64, and this feature is not there. The industry needs be able to convert virtual machine formats back and forth.

We need to make sure that qemu-image convert can specify adapter-type when converting to vmdk

Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2013-12-16 09:34:33 UTC

Works for me with qemu 1.7.0 in Fedora Rawhide:

$ qemu-img convert test.qcow2 -O vmdk test.vmdk
$ strings test.vmdk | grep -i adapter
ddb.adapterType = "ide"

$ qemu-img convert test.qcow2 -O vmdk -o adapter_type=buslogic test.vmdk
$ strings test.vmdk | grep -i adapter
ddb.adapterType = "buslogic"

I think the real WTF here is why VMware depends on disk geometry!

Comment 2 Cole Robinson 2013-12-16 15:11:57 UTC

See the syntax Rich posted in Comment #1 for how to do what you want.