You launch it – and it asks you where do you want to install it. Not a running useful Fedora Server system ( virtual system) – an installation media. So you’ll get a virtual hard drive containing Fedora installer. What can you get by converting ISO file to vmdk file? ISO is a cd/dvd image, vmdk is a hard drive image. About directly converting ISO to VMDKĪnd back to your initial question. And for making one or two copies or moving it to different physical host there are built-in tools in VM managers – usually called cloning and migrating.
And snapshot will allow you to roll back to know state later – let’s say after some experimenting with your VM. If you need a VM on this one host – then the way you did it is a good one. If you want to copy your virtual machine to other hosts, you need more that vmdk itself, you need all the properties of your VM (how many processor cores it uses, how much ram, what kind of hardware is emulated, which network controller with which network settings is used, etc.) – and as far as I know it’s not contained in the vmdk.įor running and managing many VM’s (maybe from all from one base image) – there are professional tools indeed, but I’ve never used them. The key question, I think, is what for do you want to use this vmdk image? VMDK and copying/moving VMs to other hosts.Īs far as I understand it, vmdk itself is a hard drive image, it’s like a virtual hard drive. Also I’ve never used VMWare, I’ve used VirtualBox and KVM/qemu. However, there are programs that can be used to open and convert some DMG files to an extension that is usable with Microsoft Windows or Linux.To tell the truth I don’t know about professional way and how companies do it ) And I would be interested to hear from people in the know. The DMG file format was developed by Apple specifically for their Mac OS platform.ĭMG files are not intended to be used with Microsoft Windows or any other Operating System. When opened in Mac OS the Disk Image is mounted as a volume that can be accessed within the Finder. DMG files are mostly used as software installers for the Mac OS platform. These layers are identified in the hdiutil command line as "CEncryptedEncoding" and "CUDIFEncoding".
The DMG format has replaced older disk image formats used with Mac OS 9 and earlier versions of the operating system.ĭMG files are raw disk images that contain block data and may have one or two additional layers applied to add encryption and compression. The DMG file extension is associated with disk images created for Mac OS X.
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