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VMDK (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 virtual appliance products, VMDK is now an open format〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = VMware )〕 and is one of the disk formats used in the Open Virtualization Format for virtual appliances. The maximum VMDK size is generally 2TB for most applications, but in September 2013, VMware vSphere 5.5 introduced 62TB VMDK capacity. == Uses == Products that use the VMDK format as the native file format include: * VMware Workstation * VMware Player * VMware Server * VMware Fusion * VMware ESXi * VMware ESX Third-party products with VMDK support include: * Parallels Desktop: Version 10 supports VMDK format〔(Parallels Announces Parallels Desktop® 10 for Mac )〕 * Sun xVM: natively supports VMDK format〔(Sun xVM Virtualization Portfolio: Virtualizing the Dynamic Datacenter )〕 * 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〔(VirtualBox Manual - Virtual Storage )〕 * SUSE Studio: builds virtual appliances using the VMDK format, among others * Norton GHOST: Hard drive imaging software * ILookIX: Computer forensic examination suite Software libraries with VMDK support include: * .NET DiscUtils: Open Source C# library 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「VMDK」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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