Virtual Machine Disk

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virtual hard drive format introduced by VMware

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• Aaru Data Preservation SuiteOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
• PhotoRecOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License
• Q215051Open sourcereads · GNU Lesser General Public License
• QEMUOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 2.0
• Daemon Toolsreads · shareware
• WinZipreads · shareware

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Documentation

• kaitai grammar: https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_formats/blob/master/filesystem/vmware_vmdk.ksy

Sources

• Kaitai Struct: vmware_vmdk
• Wikidata Q2658179
• File Formats Wiki

From Kaitai Struct format gallery, Wikidata. Updated 2026-10-24.

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