VMDK

Virtual Machine Disk Format

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]

Contents 1 Uses 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

Uses

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

• VMware Workstation
• VMware Player
• VMware Server
• VMware Fusion
• VMware ESX

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

See also

• Disk image emulator

References

External links

• VMDK at VMware.com

Disk image file formats Optical disc CCD/IMG/SUB · CUE/BIN · CSO · DAA · IBP/IBQ · ISO · ISZ · MDS/MDF · MDX · NRG · UIF Hard disk DMG · QCOW · UDIF · VDI · VHD · VMDK · WIM Floppy disk DCF · DMS · IMA/IMZ · IMG · VFD · ADF/ADZ