Comment by shakna

1 year ago

VMDK isn't documented there, and is a container for multiple partially documented - and some only reverse engineered - subformats.

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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 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

  • shakna  1 year ago

    Unfortunately, no. OVA and OVF are defined in the OVF spec, but VMDK is not.

    So congrats on finding the spec for it, as its no longer maintained! Its also no longer followed, either, unfortunately.