qemu convert error..

[RobinVossen]

Hello I am working on a little CGI App.
And this part converts. Well should convert a Vmware image to a qemu cow hard drive file.

I used the following snipper for example:

$ for i in `ls *[0-9].vmdk`; do qemu-img convert -f vmdk $i -O qcow ${i/vmdk/qcow} ; done && cat *.qcow >> debian.img

That I stole from kj's blog From Vmware to QEMU

That turned into:

...
open IMAGE_FILE, "+>IMAGE.qcow" || $sys->p_log("Unable to open als file: $!");
  foreach(@files)
  {
    my $file = $loc ."/". $_;
    $sys->p_log("Processing: $file\n");
    if ($file =~ m/([0-9]*)\.vmdk$/)
    { #
      $sys->p_log("Converting $file..\n");
      my $ret = qx!qemu-img convert -f vmdk $file -O qcow $1!;
      $sys->p_log("Converting Done, returned: $ret\n");
      $sys->p_log("Opening $1 with read-only support.\n");
      sub log_die { $sys->p_log("Unable to open file: $1"); die; } 
      open QCOW, "<$1" || log_die($!);
        $sys->p_log("File Opened: $1\n");
        while (<QCOW>){ print IMAGE_FILE $file; }
        $sys->p_log("Write done, next\n");
      close QCOW;
    }
  }
close IMAGE_FILE;
...

That snipper...
It looks like it works fine... When you look at the logs:

Wed Nov 18 13:37:36 2009 Processing: /var/autofs/misc/cdrom/.
Wed Nov 18 13:37:36 2009 Processing: /var/autofs/misc/cdrom/..
Wed Nov 18 13:37:36 2009 Processing: /var/autofs/misc/cdrom/vmware.log
Wed Nov 18 13:37:36 2009 Processing: /var/autofs/misc/cdrom/Windows XP Professional.nvram
Wed Nov 18 13:37:36 2009 Processing: /var/autofs/misc/cdrom/Windows XP Professional.vmdk
Wed Nov 18 13:37:36 2009 Converting /var/autofs/misc/cdrom/Windows XP Professional.vmdk..
Wed Nov 18 13:37:36 2009 Converting Done, returned:
Wed Nov 18 13:37:36 2009 Opening  with read-only support.
Wed Nov 18 13:37:36 2009 File Opened:
Wed Nov 18 13:37:36 2009 Write done, next
Wed Nov 18 13:37:36 2009 Processing: /var/autofs/misc/cdrom/Windows XP Professional.vmsd
Wed Nov 18 13:37:36 2009 Processing: /var/autofs/misc/cdrom/Windows XP Professional.vmx
Wed Nov 18 13:37:36 2009 Processing: /var/autofs/misc/cdrom/Windows XP Professional.vmx.lck
Wed Nov 18 13:37:36 2009 Processing: /var/autofs/misc/cdrom/Windows XP Professional.vmxf
Wed Nov 18 13:37:36 2009 Processing: /var/autofs/misc/cdrom/Windows XP Professional-f001.vmdk
Wed Nov 18 13:37:36 2009 Converting /var/autofs/misc/cdrom/Windows XP Professional-f001.vmdk..
Wed Nov 18 13:37:36 2009 Converting Done, returned:
Wed Nov 18 13:37:36 2009 Opening 001 with read-only support.
Wed Nov 18 13:37:36 2009 File Opened: 001
Wed Nov 18 13:37:36 2009 Write done, next
Wed Nov 18 13:37:36 2009 Processing: /var/autofs/misc/cdrom/Windows XP Professional-f002.vmdk
Wed Nov 18 13:37:36 2009 Converting /var/autofs/misc/cdrom/Windows XP Professional-f002.vmdk..
Wed Nov 18 13:37:36 2009 Converting Done, returned:
Wed Nov 18 13:37:36 2009 Opening 002 with read-only support.
Wed Nov 18 13:37:36 2009 File Opened: 002
Wed Nov 18 13:37:36 2009 Write done, next
Wed Nov 18 13:37:36 2009 Success!

However it doesnt even write the file that it should create.
So, I tried to do this by hand:

[root@system http]# qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O qcow "/var/autofs/misc/cdrom/Windows XP Professional-f001.vmdk" 001
qemu-img: Could not open '/var/autofs/misc/cdrom/Windows XP Professional-f001.vmdk'
[root@system http]# ls -alh /var/autofs/misc/cdrom/
total 3.1G
dr-xr-xr-x 3 4294967295 4294967295  904 2009-11-18 10:53 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root       root          0 2009-11-18 11:41 ..
-r-xr-xr-x 1 4294967295 4294967295 2.0G 2009-11-18 10:50 Windows XP Professional-f001.vmdk
-r-xr-xr-x 1 4294967295 4294967295 1.1G 2009-11-18 10:50 Windows XP Professional-f002.vmdk
-r-xr-xr-x 1 4294967295 4294967295 8.5K 2009-11-18 10:50 Windows XP Professional.nvram
-r-xr-xr-x 1 4294967295 4294967295  508 2009-11-18 10:49 Windows XP Professional.vmdk
-r-xr-xr-x 1 4294967295 4294967295    0 2009-11-18 10:03 Windows XP Professional.vmsd
-r-xr-xr-x 1 4294967295 4294967295 2.0K 2009-11-18 10:24 Windows XP Professional.vmx
dr-xr-xr-x 2 4294967295 4294967295  100 2009-11-18 10:03 Windows XP Professional.vmx.lck
-r-xr-xr-x 1 4294967295 4294967295  278 2009-11-18 10:03 Windows XP Professional.vmxf
-r-xr-xr-x 1 4294967295 4294967295 456K 2009-11-18 10:50 vmware.log

And now I am more then confused.
Can anyone help me with this issue?

Thanks