Bug 999818

Summary: fail to create VMDK format for block device(e.g: iscsi lun or lvm)
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Sibiao Luo <sluo>
Component: qemu-kvmAssignee: Fam Zheng <famz>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 7.0CC: acathrow, bsarathy, chayang, famz, flang, hhuang, jcody, juzhang, michen, mkenneth, qzhang, stefanha, virt-maint, xfu
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Clone Of: 999816 Environment:
Last Closed: 2013-09-05 15:33:24 UTC Type: Bug
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Comment 1 Ademar Reis 2013-09-05 15:33:24 UTC
Since this is a corner case and the reason we want to support vmdk is mostly for read-only use-cases, I'm closing it as wontfix.

BTW, Fam believes that not even VMWare supports the creation of vmdk files on block devices.