NS8: All VMWare images unusable

mrmarkuz · May 18, 2023, 11:23pm

Yes, without the subformat=streamOptimized option the images (Debian, Alma and Rocky) work but they are sized about 2 GB.

I tried several qemu-img options and VMWare vmkfstools but without getting a smaller working vmdk.

I uploaded the working vmdks here for testing.

Working qemu-img command:

qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O vmdk ns8-image.qcow2 ns8-converted.vmdk

github.com

NethServer/ns8-core/blob/d414746e9ec8d4fcb3c2d4859a8ec0d2736ee0f3/.github/workflows/build-disk-images.yml#L91


      
            id: validate
            run: packer build --only=${{ matrix.source }} --var "core_version=${{ github.event.workflow_run.head_branch }}" .
          - id: qcow2
            run: |
              IMAGE_PATH=$(cat packer-manifest.json | jq -r .builds[0].files[0].name)
              echo "path=${IMAGE_PATH}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
          - id: vmdk
            name: Convert to VMDK
            run: |
              VMDK_PATH=$(echo ${{ steps.qcow2.outputs.path }} | sed -e 's/\.qcow2$/\.vmdk/')
              qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O vmdk -o subformat=streamOptimized ${{ steps.qcow2.outputs.path }} $VMDK_PATH
              echo "path=${VMDK_PATH}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
          - name: Upload NS8 image
            uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v1
            with:
              name: ${{ github.event.workflow_run.head_branch }}
              tag_name: ${{ github.event.workflow_run.head_branch }}
              files: |
                ${{ steps.qcow2.outputs.path }}
                ${{ steps.vmdk.outputs.path }}

The qcow images (I didn’t test CentOS Stream) are working in Proxmox.