[fedora-virt] qemu question/clarification

Mark McLoughlin markmc at redhat.com
Fri Jul 17 10:28:50 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 14:22 -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> qemu documentation such as the man page for qemu-img says that only versions 3 
> and 4 for the vmdk files are supported.  What does this mean?

Try "hexdump -C -n 4" on the files - vmdk.c says:

#define VMDK3_MAGIC (('C' << 24) | ('O' << 16) | ('W' << 8) | 'D')
#define VMDK4_MAGIC (('K' << 24) | ('D' << 16) | ('M' << 8) | 'V')

Cheers,
Mark.




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