According to Paul te Bokkel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> BTW: did anyone investigate the VMWare disk-format to some
> extent? It seems to be a normal image, apart from the inital lead.
> Would be rather nice to be able to use VMWare disks... ;-)
No, the VMWare disk format is a sparse-format, meaning that it doesn't store
disk blocks that have never been written before, thus making the disk image
smaller.
You can't 'mount' the disk-image with the standard UNIX tools too; you need
a special VMWare program for that.
Wouter Coene
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