Robert P. J. Day wrote: > (newbie alert: the first in what is almost assuredly a number of > beginner-level questions.) > > regarding the possible virtual disk formats, AIUI, virtualbox has > its own native format (VDI), and it is also capable of working with > VMDK format images (vmware native format, right?).
Right, VDI is currently the preferred format, as it's the only format which allows you to do snapshots etc. VMDK can be read and written, but there's no snapshot support. > i note as well that microsoft has its own format -- VHD -- but it > doesn't appear that vbox can handle that. is all that about right? VHD is in the works now that the format specification is open. There are lots of changes pending in the virtual disk area. So stay tuned. Soon it'll be relatively simple to integrate arbitrary image formats and convert them without much trouble. > > rday > > p.s. i recall reading somewhere that it is possible to convert a VHD > image to VMDK as well. Currently the best bet for conversion is using the qemu-img command line tool (source should be pretty obvious from the name). It can't read/write VDI files, but converting to VDI (from raw image) is doable with "VBoxManage convertdd". As mentioned above, this isn't the last word in this area. -- Dr. Klaus Espenlaub innotek GmbH, http://www.innotek.de _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
