VMDK is developed by and for VMWare, but VirtualBox and QEMU (another common virtualization software) also support it. Other virtualization software generally don't support VDI, but it's pretty easy to convert from VDI to another format, especially with qemu-img convert. be able to move my virtual machine to another OS or even another free virtualization solution with minimal effort (probably something that would run fine on Ubuntu).VirtualBox supports snapshotting of all six formats. HDD, QCOW, and QED have to be dynamically allocated if created in VirtualBox. VMDK has an additional capability of splitting the storage file into files less than 2 GB each, which is useful if your file system has a small file size limit. VDI, VMDK, and VHD all support dynamically allocated storage. Source: Oracle® VM VirtualBox® User Manual » Chapter 5.
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