← Back to context Comment by bigyabai 1 year ago My kingdom for a documented disk image format. 13 comments bigyabai Reply mannyv 1 year ago I'll take your kingdom!ISO 9660.https://www.iso.org/iso-9660-images-for-computer-files.htmlVMDKhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMDKAmigahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Disk_FileUDFhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_FormatApple Disk Imagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Disk_Image shakna 1 year ago VMDK isn't documented there, and is a container for multiple partially documented - and some only reverse engineered - subformats. mdaniel 1 year ago Not on wikipedia, but VMDK is part of the DTMF OVF[1] format and thus I believe the .vmdk format would be implicitly made available thereinHowever, words are words but software is better:- https://github.com/vmware/open-vmdk#specifications is Apache 2- the link they cited is bitrotten but Internet Archive has you: https://web.archive.org/web/20210411181842/https://www.vmwar...1: https://www.dmtf.org/standards/ovf 1 reply → tobias3 1 year ago VHDX https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocol... shakna 1 year ago About the only decently documented disk image format I've found is qcow2. [0] Which is usually not the best tool for the job.So very many of them are just header details + "only works with our tools".[0] https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/interop/qcow2.html aaronmdjones 1 year ago https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/ext4/index.html zymhan 1 year ago A filesystem is not a disk image. n_plus_1_acc 1 year ago If it quaks like a disk image, it is a disk image 4 replies →
mannyv 1 year ago I'll take your kingdom!ISO 9660.https://www.iso.org/iso-9660-images-for-computer-files.htmlVMDKhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMDKAmigahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Disk_FileUDFhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_FormatApple Disk Imagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Disk_Image shakna 1 year ago VMDK isn't documented there, and is a container for multiple partially documented - and some only reverse engineered - subformats. mdaniel 1 year ago Not on wikipedia, but VMDK is part of the DTMF OVF[1] format and thus I believe the .vmdk format would be implicitly made available thereinHowever, words are words but software is better:- https://github.com/vmware/open-vmdk#specifications is Apache 2- the link they cited is bitrotten but Internet Archive has you: https://web.archive.org/web/20210411181842/https://www.vmwar...1: https://www.dmtf.org/standards/ovf 1 reply → tobias3 1 year ago VHDX https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocol...
shakna 1 year ago VMDK isn't documented there, and is a container for multiple partially documented - and some only reverse engineered - subformats. mdaniel 1 year ago Not on wikipedia, but VMDK is part of the DTMF OVF[1] format and thus I believe the .vmdk format would be implicitly made available thereinHowever, words are words but software is better:- https://github.com/vmware/open-vmdk#specifications is Apache 2- the link they cited is bitrotten but Internet Archive has you: https://web.archive.org/web/20210411181842/https://www.vmwar...1: https://www.dmtf.org/standards/ovf 1 reply →
mdaniel 1 year ago Not on wikipedia, but VMDK is part of the DTMF OVF[1] format and thus I believe the .vmdk format would be implicitly made available thereinHowever, words are words but software is better:- https://github.com/vmware/open-vmdk#specifications is Apache 2- the link they cited is bitrotten but Internet Archive has you: https://web.archive.org/web/20210411181842/https://www.vmwar...1: https://www.dmtf.org/standards/ovf 1 reply →
shakna 1 year ago About the only decently documented disk image format I've found is qcow2. [0] Which is usually not the best tool for the job.So very many of them are just header details + "only works with our tools".[0] https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/interop/qcow2.html
aaronmdjones 1 year ago https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/ext4/index.html zymhan 1 year ago A filesystem is not a disk image. n_plus_1_acc 1 year ago If it quaks like a disk image, it is a disk image 4 replies →
zymhan 1 year ago A filesystem is not a disk image. n_plus_1_acc 1 year ago If it quaks like a disk image, it is a disk image 4 replies →
I'll take your kingdom!
ISO 9660.
https://www.iso.org/iso-9660-images-for-computer-files.html
VMDK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMDK
Amiga
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Disk_File
UDF
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format
Apple Disk Image
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Disk_Image
VMDK isn't documented there, and is a container for multiple partially documented - and some only reverse engineered - subformats.
Not on wikipedia, but VMDK is part of the DTMF OVF[1] format and thus I believe the .vmdk format would be implicitly made available therein
However, words are words but software is better:
- https://github.com/vmware/open-vmdk#specifications is Apache 2
- the link they cited is bitrotten but Internet Archive has you: https://web.archive.org/web/20210411181842/https://www.vmwar...
1: https://www.dmtf.org/standards/ovf
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VHDX https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocol...
About the only decently documented disk image format I've found is qcow2. [0] Which is usually not the best tool for the job.
So very many of them are just header details + "only works with our tools".
[0] https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/interop/qcow2.html
https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/ext4/index.html
A filesystem is not a disk image.
If it quaks like a disk image, it is a disk image
4 replies →