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The vmdk i have is from a VM that has not been partitioned, does it mean,
it will not work?
Meaning, i cannot use an off the shelf kernel, ramdisk and use the
qcow2-converted-image-from-vmdk?
Thanks
Ravi



On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Robert Collins
<robertc at robertcollins.net>wrote:

> You'll need a format qemu-img supports; diskimage-builder outputs
> qcow2 by default, for instance.
>
> Also note it must be a partition image, not a full disk image.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
>
> On 22 October 2013 16:15, Ravikanth Samprathi <rsamprat at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> > Am using a vmdk file for provisioning baremetal. But the nova failed with
> > nova-compute log having the following message:
> > ERROR nova.compute.manager ..... Unexpected error while running command
> > qemu-img convert ....error while reading sector 131072 .... Invalid
> > argument.
> >
> > Can someone provide some help/pointers.
> > Thanks
> > Ravi
> >
> >
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