On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:09:03PM -0700, JD wrote: > > > 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. > Thats really odd. I should have (I woould think) then onlly .vdi files, as none of my VM's actually has a real physical drive. They are all images (files) on eh native Ubuntu filesystem (ext4 if memory serves coreclty). One of the .vmdk files is 8+G for instance.
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