Virtual Machine Disk

Also known as VMDK, .vmdk

VMDK (short for Virtual Machine Disk) is a file format that describes containers for virtual hard disk drives to be used in virtual machines like VMware Workstation or VirtualBox.

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Official website: www.vmware.com/technical-resources/interfaces/vmdk.html

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file extension: vmdk
described at URL: www.vmware.com/support/developer/vddk/vmdk_50_technote.pdf?src=vmdk
media type: application/x-virtualbox-vmdk

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VMDK (short for Virtual Machine Disk) is a file format that describes containers for virtual hard disk drives to be used in virtual machines like VMware Workstation or VirtualBox.

Initially developed by VMware for its proprietary virtual appliance products, VMDK became an open format with revision 5.0 in 2011, and is one of the disk formats used inside the Open Virtualization Format for virtual appliances.