<div dir="ltr"><div>The vmdk i have is from a VM that has not been partitioned, does it mean, it will not work?<br></div>Meaning, i cannot use an off the shelf kernel, ramdisk and use the qcow2-converted-image-from-vmdk?<br>
Thanks<br>Ravi<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Robert Collins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robertc@robertcollins.net" target="_blank">robertc@robertcollins.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">You'll need a format qemu-img supports; diskimage-builder outputs<br>
qcow2 by default, for instance.<br>
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Also note it must be a partition image, not a full disk image.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Rob<br>
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On 22 October 2013 16:15, Ravikanth Samprathi <<a href="mailto:rsamprat@gmail.com">rsamprat@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi<br>
> Am using a vmdk file for provisioning baremetal. But the nova failed with<br>
> nova-compute log having the following message:<br>
> ERROR nova.compute.manager ..... Unexpected error while running command<br>
> qemu-img convert ....error while reading sector 131072 .... Invalid<br>
> argument.<br>
><br>
> Can someone provide some help/pointers.<br>
> Thanks<br>
> Ravi<br>
><br>
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