Good timing. I just tried this today for the first time. Here's what worked for me: wget http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/saucy/current/saucy-server-cloudimg-i386-disk1.img qemu-img convert -f qcow2 saucy-server-cloudimg-i386-disk1.img -O vmdk saucy-server-cloudimg-i386-disk1.vmdk glance image-create --name precise-cloud --is-public=True --container-format=bare --disk-format=vmdk --property vmware_disktype="sparse" --property vmware_adaptertype="ide" < saucy-server-cloudimg-i386-disk1.vmdk nova boot --config-drive=true --image saucy-cloud --flavor m1.small --poll saucy On Apr 16, 2014, at 6:36 PM, Jay Lau <jay.lau.513 at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone ever create VMWare image using "qemu-img convert" from a QCOW2 image? I did some test according to the following guide but the VM creation always failed. > > I tried to logon to the console of the VM and found the console is reporting the VM was boot from PXE and no operating systems. > > ============================== > = > Using the qemu-img utility, disk images in several formats (such as, qcow2) can be converted to the VMDK format. > For example, the following command can be used to convert a qcow2 Ubuntu Precise cloud image: > $ qemu-img convert -f qcow2 ~/Downloads/precise-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img \ > -O vmdk precise-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.vmdk > VMDK disks converted through qemu-img are always monolithic sparse VMDK disks with an IDE adapter type. Using the previous example of the Precise Ubuntu image after the qemu-img conversion, the command to upload the VMDK disk should be something like: > $ glance image-create --name precise-cloud --is-public=True \ > --container-format=bare --disk-format=vmdk \ > --property vmware_disktype="sparse" \ > --property vmware_adaptertype="ide" < \ > precise-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.vmdk > > =============================== > -- > Thanks, > > Jay > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev at lists.openstack.org > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev&k=oIvRg1%2BdGAgOoM1BIlLLqw%3D%3D%0A&r=2CQc966BQ6s3Cdd6nQ79uvWP17nF9g%2FX4m3XppGg1xQ%3D%0A&m=OuyW8RHPj7QHpDd93d%2FQQwJNpI%2F4XdkhvUGKMXnbw%2Bg%3D%0A&s=f9ff1b7ad27552da9560a5d008cf6c5ad005402826712e2d477e3dc687044174 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/attachments/20140416/4a1917dc/attachment.html>