[rhelv6-list] qemu-img has no scsi support anymore?

[Robin Price II]

On 10/20/2011 04:19 AM, Rainer Traut wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 18.10.2011 20:52, schrieb Robin Price II:
>> On 10/18/2011 11:32 AM, Rainer Traut wrote:
>
>>> I'm trying to conevrt an old Vmware Server 2.0 vm with W2k Server to
>>> kvm.
>>> I converted from vmdk to raw, changed controller to scsi and hit this:
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621933
>>>
>
>
>> Virtualized SCSI devices
>> SCSI emulation is not supported with KVM in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
>> Virtualized IDE devices
>> KVM is limited to a maximum of four virtualized (emulated) IDE devices
>> per guest.
>>
>> Will this be supported in the future? Not sure. SCSI emulation, at the
>> moment, is not looking to be supported and is very buggy upstream as
>> well.
>>
>> However, I don't think qemu-img can convert any vmdk image to a KVM
>> image. I ran into something very similar recently. I had to use the
>> 'vmware-vdiskmanager' tool provided from VMware.
>>
>> The <vm_name>-flat.vmdk files store the content of the virtual machines
>> actual hard disk drives. Earlier versions of ESX used the extension .dsk
>> for the virtual disk files. The <vm_name>.vmdk files are the disk
>> descriptor files. This file contains all the information about the
>> associated flat file. The files tell you the CID of the file, the parent
>> CID of the file, and the type and size of the file amongst other things.
>>
>
> Thx Robin for your detailed answer.
> I managed to solve it though in a very unusual way I guess.
> Converting the image with qemu-img was no problem but as I said this
> resulted in a blue screen within w2k.
>
> A windows admin told me how to import the vmware2 image in hyperv
> described here (2nd answer, so that it uses IDE):
> http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winserverhyperv/thread/ef8c12f7-c45d-442e-9a30-c43cd87df3b3
>
>
> After this it ran fine in Hyperv, then I converted the vhd with qemu-img
> to raw format. This image boots fine now with KVM and IDE controller. :)
>
> Note: I was not able to run the image without having started it under
> Hyperv, but your results may vary.
>
> Thx
> Rainer
>


Rainer,

Wow.  This is really interesting and helpful.  Would you mind working 
with me off-list?  I would like to document this situation you ran into 
and make a kbase our of it for GSS.  Please respond off-list if you can 
and if we are able to provide a document that works for your situation, 
I can post the link here for everyone.

Thanks again for the follow-up!

~rp


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