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 > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev at lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > -- Robert Collins <rbtcollins at hp.com> Distinguished Technologist HP Converged Cloud