[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#512439: virt-convert: Creates empty .raw files

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Package: virtinst
Version: 0.400.0-7
Severity: normal

virt-convert creates empty .raw files while importing various .vmx
files. 

These are the contents of one of the .vmx files:
#!/usr/bin/vmware
config.version = "7"
virtualHW.version = "3"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
memsize = "128"
ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.fileName = "FreeBSD.vmdk"
ide1:0.present = "FALSE"
ide1:0.fileName = "/home/jelmer/5.4-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
floppy0.fileName = "/dev/fd0"
Ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
usb.present = "FALSE"
displayName = "FreeBSD"
guestOS = "freebsd"
priority.grabbed = "normal"
priority.ungrabbed = "normal"
powerType.powerOff = "default"
powerType.powerOn = "default"
powerType.suspend = "default"
powerType.reset = "default"

Ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
uuid.location = "56 4d c0 76 3d 8b 45 27-a4 4f d9 49 a4 13 2c 78"
uuid.bios = "56 4d c0 76 3d 8b 45 27-a4 4f d9 49 a4 13 2c 78"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:13:2c:78"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"

floppy0.present = "FALSE"

ide0:0.redo = ""
ide0:0.deviceType = "ata-hardDisk"

The .vmdk file exists but contains a sparse disk description:

# Disk DescriptorFile
version=1
CID=da0eb637
parentCID=ffffffff
createType="twoGbMaxExtentSparse"

# Extent description
RW 4192256 SPARSE "FreeBSD-s001.vmdk"
RW 2048 SPARSE "FreeBSD-s002.vmdk"

# The Disk Data Base 
#DDB

ddb.toolsVersion = "0"
ddb.adapterType = "ide"
ddb.geometry.sectors = "63"
ddb.geometry.heads = "16"
ddb.geometry.cylinders = "4161"
ddb.virtualHWVersion = "3"

Perhaps sparse vmware disks are just not supported yet?

-- 
Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at debian.org> - Jabber: jelmer at jabber.fsfe.org
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