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From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
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Subject: Re: virtualbox wishlist [already :-)]
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on 26/05/2009 14:16 Vladimir Grebenschikov said the following:
> At the end .vmdk file looks like:
> 
> # Disk DescriptorFile
> version=1
> CID=5ea344ed
> parentCID=ffffffff
> createType="fullDevice"
> 
> # Extent description
> RW 390716865 FLAT "/dev/ad0"
> 
> # The disk Data Base 
> #DDB
> 
> ddb.virtualHWVersion = "4"
> ddb.adapterType="ide"
> ddb.geometry.cylinders="387621"
> ddb.geometry.heads="16"
> ddb.geometry.sectors="63"
> ddb.uuid.image="0f139cb7-a6de-42b2-8c21-e28f23507d45"
> ddb.uuid.parent="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
> ddb.uuid.modification="3b33feab-fb1d-4d62-ad74-dd73f18be5e0"
> ddb.uuid.parentmodification="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
> ddb.geometry.biosCylinders="387621"
> ddb.geometry.biosHeads="16"
> ddb.geometry.biosSectors="63"
> 
> Looks like such file may be created by hands of by simple script
> instead.

Thank you very much for the information! - It didn't even come to my mind that
vmdk could be a plain-text file :-)

-- 
Andriy Gapon