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Waqas
Asked: 2014-01-17 05:04:22 +0800 CST

qemu-img: error while reading sector 327680: Invalid argument

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I am trying to convert vmdk image to raw format but I am getting an error statement.

qemu-img convert -f vmdk Ubuntu-12.04-LTS-Jeos-1.0-disk1.vmdk -O raw myImage.raw

and I am getting following error.

qemu-img: error while reading sector 327680: Invalid argument

However it creates myImage.raw image with 0 disk size. I have googled it but couldn't find any solution. I am using qemu-img version 1.0 on Ubuntu 12.04 64bit. Any suggestions would be helpful

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  1. Best Answer

    The syntax needs adjusting. Flag arguments need to come first, then the input file and then the output file.

    qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O raw Ubuntu-12.04-LTS-Jeos-1.0-disk1.vmdk myImage.raw

    If you're still getting that, it might suggest a corrupted VMDK. I just downloaded the appliance VMDK and ran:

    $ qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O raw Ubuntu-12.04-LTS-Jeos-1.0-disk1.vmdk myImage.raw
$ ls -l myImage.raw 
-rw-r--r-- 1 oli oli 2147483648 Jan 16 13:35 myImage.raw

    That seems to work fine.

    Edit: This seems like it might be a side-effect of an old version of qemu. I'm using Ubuntu 13.10 with version 1.5.0 of qemu-utils. Either upgrade the version of qemu (per the question I linked to) or upgrade Ubuntu.

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