What is the difference between .vmdk and .zipx?
- Extension
- .vmdk
- .zipx
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- VMware
- PKWARE, Inc.
- Description
- VMDK files make up a virtual disk. The size of the virtuals disk determines the number of the vmdk files in it.
- WinZip, starting with version 12.1, uses the extension .zipx for ZIP files that use compression methods newer than DEFLATE; specifically, methods BZip, LZMA, PPMd, Jpeg and Wavpack. The last 2 are applied to appropriate file types when "Best method" compression is selected.
- MIME Type
- application/x-vmdk
- application/zip
- Wikipedia
- .vmdk on Wikipedia
- .zipx on Wikipedia