Re: [Qemu-discuss] Error 'invalid argument' during convert

[mike]

On 19.05.2012 10:11, Prakash P wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> Yes I have also created the vmdk from an ESX 5. Thanks for this
> pointer.
>
> Can you please let me know what you mean by "more normal" vmdk?? Is
> there any specific option in vmware-vdiskmanager needs to be used? Or
> just renaming the vmdk file using -n option will do the necessary
> conversion?

unfortunately, my co-worker didn't remember the exact details of how 
the vmdk needed to be changed using the vmware-vdiskmanager. i was just 
looking at some vmware documentation about the utility and i'm guessing 
you would want to specify the -r option to do a convert and either '-t 
0' or '-t 2' for the image type. 0 will make the output be a sparse vmdk 
and 2 will make it a pre-allocated vmdk. i don't know if a particular 
one of those will be needed though. this is all just conjecture on my 
part though.

mike