[Libguestfs] vmdk support by libguestfs in RHEL and upstream

[Yufang Zhang]

On 04/28/2010 05:15 PM, Matthew Booth wrote:
> On 28/04/10 08:58, Yufang Zhang wrote:
>    
>> Hi all,
>> As we are doing plan for testing libguestfs, I have a question about
>> vmdk support for libguestfs. In Fedora 12, we can successfully manage a
>> vmdk image via guestfish(add ->  run ->  mkfs ->  mount ->  ...). But in
>> RHEL6, for qemu-kvm can not boot with a vmdk image, libguestfs can not
>> manage vmdk either.  So is it true that vmdk is only supported by
>> upstream libguestfs but not the version in RHEL6?  Thanks.
>>      
> I haven't looked specifically, but it's more likely that qemu in RHEL 6
> beta has been compiled without vmdk support. libguestfs itself doesn't
> know anything about vmdk.
>
> Matt
>    
So in RHEL6, virt-v2v must first convert vmdk format image into qcow2 
format image, and then do other converting, because libguestfs in RHEL6 
cannot manage vmdk image directly?