livecd-rootfs/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks/040-vmdk-image.binary

#!/bin/bash -eux
# vi: ts=4 noexpandtab
#
# Generate VMDK files
#
# There is no real good way to create a _compressed_ VMDK using open source
# tooling that works across multiple VMDK-capable platforms. This hook uses
# vmdk-stream-converter and then modifies the header manually to produce a
# compatiable VMDK.

architecture=$(chroot chroot dpkg --print-architecture)

extension="disk1.vmdk"
case ${architecture} in
         i386) image_target="binary/boot/disk.ext4";;
        amd64) image_target="binary/boot/disk-uefi.ext4"; extension="uefi1.vmdk";;
            *) echo "VMDK images are not supported for ${architecture} yet.";
               exit 0;;
esac

apt-get install -qqy qemu-utils vmdk-stream-converter

streamconverter="/usr/share/pyshared/VMDKstream.py"

# Lets be safe about this
scratch_d=$(mktemp -d)
trap "rm -rf ${scratch_d}" EXIT

modify_vmdk_header() {
	# Modify the VMDK headers so that both VirtualBox _and_ VMware can
	# read the vmdk and import them. The vodoo here is _not_ documented
	# anywhere....so this will have to do.

	vmdk_name="${1}"

	# Extract the vmdk header for manipulation
	dd if="${vmdk_name}" of=descriptor.txt bs=1 skip=512 count=1024

	# The sed lines below is where the magic is. Specifically:
	#	ddb.toolsVersion: sets the open-vm-tools so that VMware shows
	#		the tooling as current
	#	ddb.virtualHWVersion: set the version to 7, which covers most
	#		current versions of VMware
	#	createType: make sure its set to stream Optimized
	#	remove the vmdk-stream-converter comment and replace with
	#		# Disk DescriptorFile. This is needed for Virtualbox
	#	remove the comments from vmdk-stream-converter which causes
	#		VirtualBox and others to fail VMDK validation

	sed -e 's|ddb.comment.*|ddb.toolsVersion = "2147483647"|' \
		-e 's|ddb.virtualHWVersion.*|ddb.virtualHWVersion = "7"|' \
		-e 's|createType.*|createType="streamOptimized"|' \
		-e 's|# Description file.*|# Disk DescriptorFile|' \
		-e '/# Believe.*/d' \
		-e '/# Indicates no parent/d' \
			descriptor.txt > new_descriptor.txt

	# The header is cannot be bigger than 1024
	expr $(stat --format=%s new_descriptor.txt) \< 1024 || {
		echo "descriptor is too large, VMDK will be invalid!"; exit 1; }

	# Overwrite the vmdk header with our new, modified one
	dd conv=notrunc,nocreat \
		if=new_descriptor.txt of="${vmdk_name}" \
		bs=1 seek=512 count=1024
}

convert_image() {
    src="$1"
    destination="$2"

    cp ${src} ${scratch_d}/resize.img
    qemu-img resize ${scratch_d}/resize.img 10G
    python ${streamconverter} ${scratch_d}/resize.img "${destination}"
	modify_vmdk_header "${destination}"
    qemu-img info "${destination}"
}

convert_image binary/boot/disk.ext4 livecd.ubuntu-cpc.disk1.vmdk

if [ -e binary/boot/disk-uefi.ext4 ]; then
    convert_image binary/boot/disk-uefi.ext4 livecd.ubuntu-cpc.uefi.vmdk
fi