[Solved] qemu-img convert gives error: Unsupported image type 'seSparse'

[davec]

Any idea what I can do to correct this to make it work ? Google searchs have proven elusive in search for an answer.

root@prox2:/mnt/pve/NAS-VMWARE/daveskb# ls -latrh
total 6.8G
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 22 2014 daveskb.vmsd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262 Apr 22 2014 daveskb.vmxf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 166K Nov 9 21:35 vmware-21.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 166K Nov 9 21:47 vmware-22.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 112K Nov 9 22:01 vmware-23.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45K Nov 9 22:04 vmware-24.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45K Nov 9 22:04 vmware-25.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 166K Nov 9 22:12 vmware-26.log
-rw------- 1 root root 497 Nov 9 23:18 daveskb.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 8.5K Nov 9 23:41 daveskb.nvram
-rw------- 1 root root 6.9G Nov 9 23:41 daveskb-sesparse.vmdk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2.4K Nov 9 23:41 daveskb.vmx
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 166K Nov 9 23:41 vmware.log




root@prox2:/mnt/pve/NAS-VMWARE/daveskb# qemu-img convert -f vmdk /mnt/pve/NAS-VMWARE/daveskb/daveskb.vmdk -O qcow2 /mnt/pve/NAS-qcow2/images/daveskb.qcow2
qemu-img: Could not open '/mnt/pve/NAS-VMWARE/daveskb/daveskb.vmdk': Unsupported image type 'seSparse'

 

[manu]

Re: qemu-img convert gives error: Unsupported image type 'seSparse'

Hi Dave
Looks like seSparse disks are not supported from qemu-img. You should export the disks from VMware to another format, for instance export them for an older version of VMware without seSparse, and then try to convert them again with qemu-img.

 

[davec]

Re: qemu-img convert gives error: Unsupported image type 'seSparse'

OK, that pointed me in the right direction... and I was able to get it to work. Posting here what I did to convert this VmWare VM to Proxmox and qcow2 format.

ON PROXMOX GUI: create the new vm.

ON the ESXI host:
vmkfstools -i "/vmfs/volumes/12493403-93acb85f/daveskb/daveskb.vmdk" "/vmfs/volumes/12493403-93acb85f/daveskb2.vmdk" -d thin -a buslogic

ON PROXMOX SHELL:
qemu-img convert -f vmdk /mnt/pve/NAS-VMWARE/daveskb2.vmdk -O qcow2 /mnt/pve/NAS-qcow2/images/daveckbtemp.qcow2

root@prox2:/mnt/pve/NAS-qcow2/images/104# mv ../daveckbtemp.qcow2 vm-104-disk-1.qcow2

Hope that helps someone else searching on the net Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction.