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A fun corner case in "streamOptimized" VMDK support:
The VMDK file header includes a version number.
Recent versions of ESXi will outright reject streamOptimized VMDKs that
do not self-report as using the "version 3" VMDK format. (Not a supported disk format (sparse VMDK version too old))
Although QEMU 2.1.0 and later can output to streamOptimized VMDK,
only in 2.5.1 and later does it produce "version 3" streamOptimized VMDKs.
Since version 1.1.2, COT has preferred QEMU 2.1.0 over vmdktool, but if QEMU > 2.1.0 but less than 2.5.1, it is producing version 1 VMDKs which are not usable with recent ESXi.
COT should therefore prefer QEMU over vmdktoolonly if QEMU version is at least 2.5.1, not 2.1.0.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:
A fun corner case in "streamOptimized" VMDK support:
do not self-report as using the "version 3" VMDK format. (
Not a supported disk format (sparse VMDK version too old)
)only in 2.5.1 and later does it produce "version 3" streamOptimized VMDKs.
vmdktool
, but if QEMU > 2.1.0 but less than 2.5.1, it is producing version 1 VMDKs which are not usable with recent ESXi.COT should therefore prefer QEMU over
vmdktool
only if QEMU version is at least 2.5.1, not 2.1.0.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: