What is the difference between .vhd and .tar.7z?
- Extension
- .vhd
- .tar.7z
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- Microsoft
- Igor Pavlov
- Description
- Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) is the default disk image file format for Microsoft Virtual Server 2005.
- This format works based on the LZMA principle compression algorithm. It was originally used in 7-Zip archives. tar.7z archives were created for storing info about file owners and for ease of use in Unix systems, based on a TAR archiving tool.
- MIME Type
- application/x-virtualbox-vhd
- application/x-7z-compressed
- Wikipedia
- .vhd on Wikipedia
- .tar.7z on Wikipedia