What is the difference between .vmdk and .tgz?
- Extension
- .vmdk
- .tgz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- VMware
- GNU
- Description
- VMDK files make up a virtual disk. The size of the virtuals disk determines the number of the vmdk files in it.
- Unix .TAR file archive compressed with Gnu Zip (.GZIP) compression; uses a TAR archive to bundle the files together and Gzip compression to reduce the file size; commonly used on Unix and Linux systems; originally created as the shorthand version of the compound extension .TAR.GZ.
- MIME Type
- application/x-vmdk
- application/x-compressed
- Sample
- sample.tgz
- Wikipedia
- .vmdk on Wikipedia
- .tgz on Wikipedia