On Wednesday 15 September 2010, JD wrote: > > VMDK is the de facto standard for the virtualization field. Originally > > form VMware, it became standard with OVF. VMDK allows split hard drives > > and even physical raw disk, which is what you are talking about. But it > > is like Alexey mentioned, just like .JPG and .PN > > Was the OP asking his question within the VMWare context? > NO! > He was asking within the VirtualBox context. > In VBox, .vmdk extension is used for describing physical drives/partitions > and .vdi extension is used to describe and hold storage for virtual drives.
That is not entirely correct. Yes, the default extension in VirtualBox for files holding storage for virtual disk drives is .vdi but VirtualBox can use .vmdk files for holding storage for virtual disk drives as well. In fact, the .vdi format implements a subset of the features of the .vmdk format. Note for example VBoxManage createhd -filename foo.vmdk --size 12345678 --format vmdk Kind regards, Frank -- ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Werkstrasse 24 Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:[email protected] Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Rijnzathe 6, 3454PV De Meern, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz, Marcel van de Molen, Alexander van der Ven
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