Show 4 more comments. Both formats will fulfill your requirements. Tortoise Tortoise 6 6 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges. Community Bot 1. While accurate it's a bit lackluster for a question that asks about the general differences between those formats, don't you think?
Seth General overview was provided by previous answers and I don't have enough rep to just comment, but it still important to mention this fact — OwnageIsMagic.
Just as a suggestion though add it to give it more context. So even if read alone your answer has a relation to a more general one. Seth there is edit button under my question for you :D — OwnageIsMagic. I can guarantee, that i will review your edit, so your work won't be wasted. Also you will be mentioned as editor of question, so you will get proper attribution. What's the problem?
Show 1 more comment. Alan Meyer Alan Meyer 51 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge. As opposed to a physical disk however, VirtualBox allows you to expand an image file after creation, even if it has data already; VirtualBox supports four variants of disk image files: VDI: Normally, VirtualBox uses its own container format for guest hard disks -- Virtual Disk Image VDI files.
This answer come's from Chapter 5 of the VirtualBox manual. But I'm talking years uptime. This might not be a problem many people encounter. Ernest ter Kuile Ernest ter Kuile 51 1 1 bronze badge. It's more related to the fragmentation of the guest file system than to the format itself.
These are the results: Welcome to Ubuntu Daniel F Daniel F 10 10 silver badges 29 29 bronze badges. VDI is much easier to compact if the VM grows too large. I can remember i saw theese two things: Boot time was significally different, if i do not remember bad vhd was 1.
Laura Laura 11 1 1 bronze badge. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. What are the important features? What are their advantages and limitations? The VHD file is Virtual Hard Disk file that clones or contains the data of a physical hard drive like files and folders inside disk volume partitions. A hypervisor is there and that is the best feature in which if a physical server fails your desktop instance will move to another server without any interruption.
So, in a situation when our system is stolen or damaged, the whole data inside the system will be lost. But in VDI, data is stored with high-level redundancy, so a user need not worry about data loss even if the device is stolen.
Cost Cutting: By accessing the VDI services from a cloud provider, the user can easily eliminate the cost of hardware. Moreover, you can access your desktop from any device and uses the most outdated hardware in your office.
Also, a thin client, mobile or tablet can also be used for this same purpose. Features of VHD file It allows you to dwell on multiple operating systems on a single machine. Modify the VM directly from your host server that includes:- The File Recovery system Manages the disk image and finally patching them.
The transfer of files from the VHD to the host system. The security and antivirus application. The full backup of the system. And these are:- Supports Multiple Accounts: You can create multiple users for one operating system, as an operating system allows multi-user benefits. A disk image file is created in such a manner that it comprises the design and details of the disk storage capability.
Furthermore, it can be considered as the replica of the repository of the original file. Moreover, it is a copy of the storage device of the source. Hence, the information of the image file is self-supporting. VDI i. The VHD file comprises file systems and disk partitions that too may include no. It is utilized similarly as any local hard drives of the VM.
VMDK i. This file framework was created by VMware. They built up this file framework for their virtual items.
It would seem that a genuine physical hard drive however, is saved in a solitary folder that is available on a physical HDD. Also, you can say that it is an inclusive edition of the VHD file extension with new abilities, for example, execution improvement, 16TB maximum allowable size, data corruption prevention mechanism, etc.
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