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

[Rainer Traut]

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