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Hi all, 

I¹m having trouble running my vmdks on kvm in openstack. It seems that KVM
cannot find the boot partition. I¹ll transcribe some errors from the
console: 

Scanning logical volumes
  Reading all physical volumes. This may take a whileŠ
  No volume groups found
Activating logical volumes
  Volume group ³VolGroup00² not found

I¹m starting from a flat vmdk that I downloaded from the on esx web UI.
I¹ve tried the following:
- booting flat-vmdk from a glance image
- booting flat-vmdk from a volume
- converting to qcow2 (qemu-img convert) and booting from glance image
- removing all network related info and booting resulting flat-vmdk / qcow2

I always end up with the errors above.
Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks,
Tyler