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vitural box

Asked by Charles R Jr

Im trying to install virtual box, on 12.04 presise. When im creating a virtual hard drive, whats the difference between

 (1) VDI (Virtual box disk image ) and

(2) VMDK (Virtual Machine disk)

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Thomas Krüger (thkrueger) said : 		#1

They are different image types. If in doubt, use the VDI. It's the native format of Virtual Box.

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chsados (chsados) said : 		#2

VDI is the native format of VirtualBox.

VMDK is developed by and for VMWare, but Sun xVM, QEMU, VirtualBox, SUSE Studio, and .NET DiscUtils also support it. (This format might be the most apt for you because you want virtualization software that would run fine on Ubuntu.)

VHD is the native format of Microsoft Virtual PC. This is a format that is popular with Microsoft products.

I don't know anything about HDD. Judging from looking at this site, Parallels is a Mac OS X product and probably isn't suitable for you, especially considering that VirtualBox only supports an old version of the HDD format.

SOURCE: http://superuser.com/questions/360517/what-disk-image-should-i-use-with-virtualbox-vdi-vmdk-vhd-or-hdd

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Charles R Jr (visaman100kclub) said : 		#3

THanks so much