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mkimg.1: Document new vmdks format
Reviewed by: ziaee Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 MFC after: 2 weeks Sponsored by: Amazon Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D60152
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.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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.Dd December 30, 2025
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.Dd September 29, 2026
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.Dt MKIMG 1
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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To create a VMDK file, specify
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.Fl f Ar vmdk
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on the command line.
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The preferred file extension is ".vmdk".
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.Pp
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The stream-optimized VMDK format is a variant in which each grain
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(64 KiB of the virtual disk) is compressed with deflate, and grains which
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contain only zeroes are omitted.
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It is typically much smaller than the other formats, and is the VMDK
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variant accepted by some cloud platforms for importing disk images.
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To create a stream-optimized VMDK file, specify
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.Fl f Ar vmdks
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on the command line.
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.Pp
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The preferred file extension is ".vmdk" for both variants.
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.Pp
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Not all virtualization solutions support all file formats, but often those
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virtualization environments have utilities to convert from one format to
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