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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.Dd December 30, 2025
.Dd September 29, 2026
.Dt MKIMG 1
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To create a VMDK file, specify
.Fl f Ar vmdk
on the command line.
The preferred file extension is ".vmdk".
.Pp
The stream-optimized VMDK format is a variant in which each grain
(64 KiB of the virtual disk) is compressed with deflate, and grains which
contain only zeroes are omitted.
It is typically much smaller than the other formats, and is the VMDK
variant accepted by some cloud platforms for importing disk images.
To create a stream-optimized VMDK file, specify
.Fl f Ar vmdks
on the command line.
.Pp
The preferred file extension is ".vmdk" for both variants.
.Pp
Not all virtualization solutions support all file formats, but often those
virtualization environments have utilities to convert from one format to