VMDK (Virtual Machine Disk) is a file format used by VMware products.
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What disk image should I use with VirtualBox, VDI, VMDK, VHD or HDD?
Latest versions of VirtualBox supports several formats for virtual disks, but they forgot to provide a comparison between them.
VDI
VMDK
VHD
HDD
Now, I am interested about a recommendation or ...
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How do I make a VMDK format virtual hard drive from a physical partition on a disk?
I have a 320 GB HDD, which actually only has an 80 GB NTFS format partition which was being used by a Windows 7 system ... I want to create a VMDK format clone of this partition, so that I can use it ...
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How to mount a .vmdk VMWare virtual harddisk outside of the virtual machine
I've got the virtual harddisk (VMWare .vmdk file) of an old (crashed) virtual machine. How can I open this to extract files without booting from it or attaching it to a virtual machine?
I know ...
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Virtualbox virtual machine to VMWare virtual machine
I have a virtual machine in Virtualbox 4.2.4 that runs Ubuntu 12.04 on a 20Gb .vmdk harddrive.
I've done a whole load of installing programs, updates, configuring, ... on the virtual machine and now ...
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Need help accessing a VMDK / installing a VMware product
Several months ago, I took an old computer that I was getting ready to wipe, and converted it to a VMware virtual machine so I could continue to access both files and programs/settings from the ...
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Recover data from a corrupted virtualbox vmdk file?
The power went out while I was doing a build on a VirtualBox machine, when I restarted the vmdk for the disk the vm was using was corrupted, apparently irrecoverably. I have been able to grep the ...
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Where can I find desktop Ubuntu releases on a vmdk?
Any official or de-facto websites that supply this ?
Details: I specifically need Ubuntu 10.04 LTS desktop version,
in general; ubuntu desktop LTS versions.
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Can I delete .vmdk files?
I'm using vmware fusion on osx (Snow Leopard) and I noticed that for every virtual machine I have, there's a bunch of huge (2Gb) vmdk files? What are they, snapshots?
Can I delete some of them? How ...
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how to use vmware converter
how do I use vmware converter? I've tried to search google but I can't find any tutorial on how to use it.
I just wish to convert my xp installation to a vmware file so that I could use it on vm ...
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VMware Fusion disk size
I have a Windows XP x64 install in VMware Fusion. The amount of space that the VM reports as used (C:) is ~20GB. However, the amount of space the VM is taking up on my disk is 30GB. Why the ...
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VirtualBox doesn't boot vmdk disk
I converted Windows XP mode using VMware Player and vCenter converter and it runs fine. But now I want to run it in VirtualBox and it says "FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted." I went ...
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Vsphere Client Migrate option
I want to convert an VMDK disk THICK into THIN...when i click in the Virtual machine with right button it should Appear MIGRATE option but it dont appear...someone know other method to conver HDD ...
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Can Oracle Virtualbox open vmdk virtual disk created by VMWare?
I have a vmdk virtual disk that was created by VMWare. Can I option and load it from VirualBOX?
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Can't Create new Virtual Machine in VMWare Server using Hard Disk Created from VirtualBox
I have 2 virtual machines I'm trying to convert from VirtualBox to VMWare server. I exported the hard drives using the command
VBoxManage clonehd [uuid] OpenBSD.vmdk -format VMDK
This produced ...
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Need to rebuild Boot sector and Partition table of a once Multiboot Disk manually converted to VMDK
I had a problem with an HD that was not in a Healthy State I was able to make a backup in time with Acronis Image Home.
The backup was partial, the original Disk had 4 partition (3 primary, bootable ...
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How to fix I/O error when running image that's been copied
I'm running XP pro on VMware - it mounts and runs just fine.
However, if I power down the VM and try to copy it, or even if I try to do a simple Mac Backup (using Carbon Copy Cloner), I get an i/o ...
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Size of files in VBoxManage
I followed this steps:
source.vmdk (3GB) to target.img (3GB) using the converttoraw VBoxManage command
target.img (3GB) to source.vmdk (1GB) using the convertfromraw VBoxManage command
Why did it ...
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Why does a fixed-size VMDK require two files; while a dynamic-size require one?
I am scripting using the VBoxManage command line utility from VirtualBox.
When I run
VBoxManage createhd --filename "D:\Directory\haiku-alpha-new" --size 4096 --format VMDK --variant Fixed
I end ...
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dd inside of a VM to another VMDK
I currently have a VM I created using VirtualBox with three storage medias: 2 IDE controllers and a SATA. One of the IDEs I'm using as an "usb bootable media" as VBox doesn't support usb media ...
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Merging of VMDK files to Single VMDK - Diskname or some other argument is missing
Hi I would like merge vmdk files into one single file. I use
vmware-vdiskmanager.
I tried used this cmd
C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation>vmware-vdiskmanager -r C:\Users
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Copying the differences between two vmdk
I have a virtual machine (Vmware) in external disk. When i want to work with it, i am copying it to my hard disk and when i finished my job i am recopying vm from harddisk to external disk.
Is there ...
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How to open vmdk files in VMware? [closed]
I have lots of .vmdk files:
blabla-s001.vmdk
blabla-s002.vmdk
blabla-s003.vmdk
How do I open them with VMware?
