On 09/14/2010 11:44 AM, stan wrote:
> I was looking around on an Ubunto 10.04 machine tha I use for a VirtualBox
> host, and I discovered that some of the hard drive images for my VM's on
> that machine are in .vmdk files, and others are in .vdi files.
>
> What's differetn about these 2 formats?
>

a .vdi file is a descriptor file of a virtual disk, which is itself a file.
a .vmdk file  is a descriptor file of a physical disk or a partition 
thereof.

Read VirtualBoxUserManual.pdf
Download it from

http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.2.8/UserManual.pdf

or view online the HTML version:

http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html





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