What disk image should I use with VirtualBox, VDI, VMDK, VHD or HDD?

Posted by Sorin Sbarnea on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Sorin Sbarnea
Published on 2011-11-23T00:28:07Z Indexed on 2011/11/23 2:01 UTC
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Latest versions of VirtualBox supports several formats for virtual disks, but they forgot to provide a comparison between them.

  • VDI
  • VMDK
  • VHD
  • HDD

Now, I am interested about a recommendation or comparison that considers the following:

  • be able to use dynamic sizing
  • be able to have snapshots
  • be able to move my virtual machine to another OS or even another free virtualization solution with minimal effort (probably something that would run fine on Ubuntu).
  • performance

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