Description of problem: qed format is support in libvirt. But in virt-convert, it is not support now. If you convert a vmx format to qed disk format, error message would popup: "virt-convert: error: Unknown output disk format "qed"" check the related code, ./site-packages/virtconv/diskcfg.py, there is no qed format supported in it. disk_format_names = { "none": DISK_FORMAT_NONE, "raw": DISK_FORMAT_RAW, "vmdk": DISK_FORMAT_VMDK, "vdisk": DISK_FORMAT_VDISK, "qcow": DISK_FORMAT_QCOW, "qcow2": DISK_FORMAT_QCOW2, "cow": DISK_FORMAT_COW, } Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): python-virtinst-0.600.0-8.el6.noarch How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: #virt-convert -i vmx -o virt-image -D qed /tmp/vmware/*.vmx Check if the conversion successful. Actual results: Failed. Error message pop up "virt-convert: error: Unknown output disk format "qed"" Expect result: Support qed format in virt-convert
virtinst has been merged into virt-manager.git. Moving all virtinst bugs to the virt-manager component.
Soon to be upstream virt-convert has dropped the image format whitelist, so this should work now.