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Disk formatURITechnical ReferenceDescription

RAW

http://raw/

 Device disk format

VMDK_STREAM_OPTIMIZED

http://www.vmware.com/technical-resources/interfaces/vmdk_access.html#streamOptimized

vmdk_50_technote.pdf
see Stream-Optimized p11		VMware stream optimized format

VMDK_FLAT

http://www.vmware.com/technical-resources/interfaces/vmdk_access.html#monolithic_flat

vmdk_50_technote.pdf
see Simple Extents p5		VMware fixed disk

VMDK_SPARSE

http://www.vmware.com/technical-resources/interfaces/vmdk_access.html#monolithic_sparse

vmdk_50_technote.pdf 
see Hosted Sparse Extents p6
/ ESXi Host Sparse Extents on p9		VMware sparse disk

VHD_FLAT

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualserver/bb676673.aspx#monolithic_flat

VHD specification Word file
see Fixed Hard Disk Image p3		VHD fixed disk

VHD_SPARSE

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualserver/bb676673.aspx#monolithic_sparse

see Dynamic Hard Disk Image p3
VHD sparse disk
VHDX_FLAT http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831446.aspx#monolithic_flat  VHDX fixed disk
VHDX_SPARSE http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831446.aspx#monolithic_sparse  VHDX sparse disk

VDI_FLAT

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=8046#monolithic_flat

 VDI fixed disk

VDI_SPARSE

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=8046#monolithic_sparse

 VDI sparse disk

QCOW2_FLAT

http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/qcow-image-format.html#monolithic_flat

 QCOW2 fixed disk

QCOW2_SPARSE

http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/qcow-image-format.html#monolithic_sparse

 QCOW2 sparse disk
AMI http://amiprotocol.sourceforge.net/ami-specif.html#1.9.2.user.xml  AMI
ISOhttp://iso ISO format

Abiquo will record UNKNOWN as the format for disks that are not in one of the above formats and the user will not be able to deploy VMs from these disks.


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Hypervisor Compatibility Table

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For each hypervisor, the administrator can override the available formats and the default format using properties. See Abiquo Configuration Properties#pluginmetadata 

See also Appliance library concepts Catalogue concepts#Virtual-to-Virtual Conversion.


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Raw format for persistent VMs

The Disk from device or raw format is used for persistent VM templates. Before creating a persistent VM template, Abiquo converts the template's disks to raw format and then dumps them to a volume on the selected storage



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Note about ISO disks

Abiquo supports ISO disks, which may be bootable installation disks (added to templates) or data disks (added to VMs). See:

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