VMDK
E339025
VMDK is a virtual disk file format originally developed by VMware for storing the contents and structure of virtual machine hard drives.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| VMDK canonical | 3 |
| VMDK format | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3244804 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: VMDK Context triple: [VirtualBox, supportsVirtualDiskFormat, VMDK]
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A.
VHDX
VHDX is a modern virtual hard disk file format developed by Microsoft that offers larger capacity, improved reliability, and better performance than the older VHD format, primarily for use with Hyper-V virtual machines.
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B.
VHD
VHD is a virtual hard disk file format used to store the contents of a virtual machine’s hard drive, commonly supported by Microsoft virtualization platforms.
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C.
VMD
VMD is the acronym for the Veterinary Medicines Directorate, the UK government agency responsible for regulating veterinary medicines and promoting animal health and welfare.
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D.
ISO 9660
ISO 9660 is an international standard file system format primarily used for optical disc media such as CD-ROMs to ensure cross-platform data compatibility.
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E.
VMX
VMX is a vector processing extension to the PowerPC architecture designed to accelerate multimedia, signal processing, and other parallelizable computations.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: VMDK Target entity description: VMDK is a virtual disk file format originally developed by VMware for storing the contents and structure of virtual machine hard drives.
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A.
VHDX
VHDX is a modern virtual hard disk file format developed by Microsoft that offers larger capacity, improved reliability, and better performance than the older VHD format, primarily for use with Hyper-V virtual machines.
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B.
VHD
VHD is a virtual hard disk file format used to store the contents of a virtual machine’s hard drive, commonly supported by Microsoft virtualization platforms.
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C.
VMD
VMD is the acronym for the Veterinary Medicines Directorate, the UK government agency responsible for regulating veterinary medicines and promoting animal health and welfare.
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D.
ISO 9660
ISO 9660 is an international standard file system format primarily used for optical disc media such as CD-ROMs to ensure cross-platform data compatibility.
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E.
VMX
VMX is a vector processing extension to the PowerPC architecture designed to accelerate multimedia, signal processing, and other parallelizable computations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
VMware technology
ⓘ
file format ⓘ virtual disk file format ⓘ |
| canBe |
monolithicFlat
ⓘ
monolithicSparse ⓘ streamOptimized ⓘ twoGbMaxExtentFlat ⓘ twoGbMaxExtentSparse ⓘ vmfsRaw ⓘ vmfsSparse ⓘ |
| canStore |
application data
ⓘ
file system data ⓘ operating system installation ⓘ partition table ⓘ |
| category |
disk image formats
ⓘ
virtualization ⓘ |
| competesWith |
QCOW2
ⓘ
VHD ⓘ VHDX ⓘ |
| developer | VMware ⓘ |
| fileExtension | .vmdk ⓘ |
| fullName | Virtual Machine Disk ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
descriptor file
ⓘ
extent file ⓘ |
| introducedBy | VMware virtualization products ⓘ |
| originalDeveloper | VMware ⓘ |
| supportedBy |
Microsoft Virtual Server
ⓘ
Parallels Desktop ⓘ QEMU ⓘ VMware ESXi ⓘ VMware Fusion ⓘ VMware Player ⓘ
linked to:
VMware Workstation
VMware Workstation ⓘ VMware vSphere ⓘ VirtualBox ⓘ libvirt ⓘ
linked to:
Libvirt
|
| supports |
differencing disks
ⓘ
linked clones ⓘ monolithic disk images ⓘ raw device mapping metadata ⓘ snapshots ⓘ sparse provisioning ⓘ split disk images ⓘ thick provisioning ⓘ thin provisioning ⓘ |
| usedFor |
storing virtual machine disk structure
ⓘ
storing virtual machine hard disk contents ⓘ |
| usedIn |
VMware ESXi
ⓘ
VMware Fusion ⓘ VMware Player ⓘ
linked to:
VMware Workstation
VMware Workstation ⓘ VMware vSphere ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: VMDK Description of subject: VMDK is a virtual disk file format originally developed by VMware for storing the contents and structure of virtual machine hard drives.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: VMDK