Bug 1299185

Summary:	qemu-img created VMDK images lead to "Not a supported disk format (sparse VMDK version too old)"
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Robert Scheck <redhat-bugzilla>
Component:	qemu	Assignee:	Fedora Virtualization Maintainers <virt-maint>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	24	CC:	amit.shah, berrange, cfergeau, crobinso, dwmw2, itamar, pbonzini, rjones, virt-maint
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/3efffc3292d94271a15b1606b4a56adf6c6f04ed
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Clone Of:	1299116	Environment:
Last Closed:	2016-03-17 16:19:46 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Robert Scheck 2016-01-17 04:08:02 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1299116 +++

Description of problem:
qemu-img only creates broken VMDK image files that can't be used for within
an OVA file for importing a virtual machine into VMware vSphere/ESXi. Every
VMDK file created by qemu-img leads during import to the error message:

  Not a supported disk format (sparse VMDK version too old)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
qemu-img-1.5.3-105.el7_2.1.x86_64
qemu-img-2.5.0-3.fc24.x86_64 (rebuilt from Fedora Rawhide for RHEL 7)
VMware vSphere Client, Version 5.1.0, Build 1064113
VMware ESXi, Version 5.1.0, Build 1065491, German-000

How reproducible:
Everytime, see above and below.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. cd /tmp/
2. dd if=/dev/zero of=qemu-img-bug.img bs=1M count=1
3. qemu-img convert qemu-img-bug.img -O vmdk \
     -o adapter_type=lsilogic,subformat=streamOptimized,compat6 \
     qemu-img-bug.vmdk
4. tar cf qemu-img-bug.ova qemu-img-bug.ovf qemu-img-bug.vmdk
5. Try to import qemu-img-bug.ova into VMware -> fails with error above
6. printf '\x03' | dd conv=notrunc of=qemu-img-bug.vmdk bs=1 seek=$((0x4))
7. tar cf qemu-img-bug.ova qemu-img-bug.ovf qemu-img-bug.vmdk
8. Try to import qemu-img-bug.ova into VMware -> works as expected now

Actual results:
qemu-img created VMDK images lead to "Not a supported disk format (sparse
VMDK version too old)".

Expected results:
qemu-img created VMDK images should not lead to any error message during
import into VMware.

Additional info:
Credit for printf/dd combination at point 6 goes to Radoslav Gerganov.

Comment 1 Cole Robinson 2016-01-20 15:20:44 UTC

Fix was posted upstream, but isn't in git yet:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-09/msg04496.html

Comment 2 Jan Kurik 2016-02-24 15:38:52 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 24 development cycle.
Changing version to '24'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora24#Rawhide_Rebase

Comment 3 Cole Robinson 2016-03-17 16:19:46 UTC

This was fixed with the last qemu builds in feb, just forgot to close this