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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
