Virtual Disk Format 1.1,使用VMware产品创建的虚拟机通常使用虚拟磁盘。作为文件存储在主机或远程存储设备上的虚拟磁盘,
在来宾操作系统中显示为标准磁盘驱动器。
本技术说明以对构成文件的布局的高级介绍开始
VMware Workstation 4使用的aVMware虚拟磁盘类型,
VMware Workstation 5、VMwareWorkstation 6、,
VMware Player、VMware Fusion、VMware GSX Server 3、VMware Server和VMware ESX Server 3。
然后深入到这些虚拟磁盘文件中数据结构的细节。
(Virtual machines created with VMware products typically use virtual disks.
The virtual disks,stored as files on the host computer or on a remote storage device,
appear to the guestoperating systems as standard disk drives.
This technical note begins with a high-level introduction to the layout of the files that make up
aVMware virtual disk of the type used by VMware Workstation 4,
VMware Workstation 5, VMwareWorkstation 6,
VMware Player, VMware Fusion, VMware GSX Server 3, VMware Server, andVMware ESX Server 3.
It then drills down into the details of the data structures inside thosevirtual disk files.)