What is the difference between .vdi and .tar?
- Extension
- .vdi
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Other
- Developer
- Oracle
- Jean-loup Gailly
- Description
- Developed by Oracle, .vdi is found in VirtualBox a multipurpose virtualizer for x86-64 based platform. It runs on several operating systems.
- Tar archive created by tar, a Unix-based utility used to package files together; contains multiple files stored in an uncompressed format; commonly compressed into a .GZ file using GNU Zip compression.
- MIME Type
- application/x-virtualbox-vdi
- application/x-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar