conversion of a VMDK image with qemu-img failed with "error while reading sector 131072: Invalid argument"

Posted by Erik Sjölund on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Erik Sjölund
Published on 2012-09-18T13:48:52Z Indexed on 2012/12/04 11:12 UTC
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I tried to convert a VMDK image found in a OVA file to the QCOW2 format with the qemu-img command but it failed with the error message qemu-img: error while reading sector 131072: Invalid argument

user@ubuntu:/tmp$ wget ftp://ftp.sanger.ac.uk/pub/databases/Pfam/vm/PfamWeb_20120124.ova
user@ubuntu:/tmp$ tar xfv PfamWeb_20120124.ova
PfamWeb_20120124_2.ovf
PfamWeb_20120124_2.mf
PfamWeb_20120124_2-disk1.vmdk
user@ubuntu:/tmp$ qemu-img convert -O qcow2 PfamWeb_20120124_2-disk1.vmdk PfamWeb_20120124_2.qcow2
qemu-img: error while reading sector 131072: Invalid argument
user@ubuntu:/tmp$ qemu-img --version | grep "qemu-img version" 
qemu-img version 1.0, Copyright (c) 2004-2008 Fabrice Bellard
user@ubuntu:/tmp$ dpkg-query -f='${Version}\n' --show  qemu-utils
1.0+noroms-0ubuntu14.1
user@ubuntu:/tmp$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS \n \l

How do I avoid the error?

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