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Subject:    [vbox-users] Choosing virtual disk encoding type: vmdk, vdh,
From:       "hanasaki jiji" <hanasaki () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-12-22 8:07:26
Message-ID: 3cfcba890812220007p55ec89cas7a69bd3adf20ae53 () mail ! gmail ! com
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Great news from the website on
Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see user manual, chapter
5.2, Disk image files (VDI, VMDK, VHD), page 72)

So the question(s) arrise:
- performance of vmware with vmdk vs virtualbox running the same disk
- ditto on vdh from MS vs virtualbox running the disk
- Any support for creating new disks (fixed and growable) of type vmdk
or vdh in case they are being deployed to someone that prefers using
the core product for these formats?
- Are there plans for a built in tool (or perhaps a standalone
separate download) that converts between the three formats?
- In general, which of the vmdk, vdi, vdh are better for what scenarios?

- On a new note: what is the roadmap for tools that:
  + resize (preallocated disks)?
  + shrink growable disks that have grown on the host to much larger
than the amount of disk spaced used via the client?

Keep up the good work folks!  And please keep the code bloat down
unlike some of the other virtualization products.
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