Copying VMDK to VDI in VirtualBox. VMware created the Virtual Machine Disk -- VMDK -- format to make it easier to share its virtual machines, or VMs, with products produced and sold by other ...

The boilerplate answer is to shrink the VMDK... but these Linux VMs use an ext4 filesystem, which VMware does not support shrinking with their conventional tools (i.e. vmware-toolbox).

You can track thin-provisioning VMDKs filling up, but it's not a reliable metric, as you don't know when the guest file system releases its space - the VMDK might be at 99% of full size, yet the ...

One common task is to add an additional disk file (VMDK) to a virtual machine. While this can be done in the vSphere client, things like this can be done via the command line as well. The command we ...