VMDK

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Virtual Machine Disk Format
VMDK File Format icon.png
Filename extension .vmdk
Developed by VMware
Type of format Disk image file
Website www.vmware.com/interfaces/vmdk.html

VMDK (Virtual Machine Disk) is a file format used for virtual appliances developed for VMware products. The format is a container for virtual hard disk drives to be used in virtual machines like VMware Workstation or Virtualbox. VMDK is an open format.[1]

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[edit] Uses

Products that use the format as the native file format include:

Third-party products with VMDK support include:

  • Sun xVM: natively supports VMDK format[2]
  • QEMU: natively supports VMDK format and provides the qemu-img utility to convert VMDK images to a number of different formats
  • VirtualBox (part of the Oracle VM suite) also supports VMDK files[3]
  • SUSE Studio: builds virtual appliances using the VMDK format, among others

Software libraries with VMDK support include:

  • VMware VDDK: VMware's Virtual Disk Development Kit, freely available to anyone with a VMware.com account (has redistribution rights limited to certain VMWare partners[4])
  • .NET DiscUtils: Open Source C# library

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Virtual Disk Format 1.1" (PDF). VMware. http://www.vmware.com/app/vmdk/?src=vmdk. 
  2. ^ Sun xVM Virtualization Portfolio: Virtualizing the Dynamic Datacenter
  3. ^ http://blogs.sun.com/tpm/entry/virtualbox_1_6_at_community
  4. ^ VMWare Virtual Disk Development Kit

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