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== Image types == | == Image types == | ||
There are multiple types of Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) images: | There are multiple types of Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) images: | ||
| − | * Fixed-size hard disk image | + | * Fixed-size hard disk image; the image contains all data |
| − | * Dynamic-size (or sparse) hard disk image | + | * Dynamic-size (or sparse) hard disk image; the image contains used data only |
| − | * Differencing (or delta) hard disk image | + | * Differencing (or delta) hard disk image; the image contains changes relative to its parent image |
== External Links == | == External Links == | ||
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Image types
There are multiple types of Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) images:
- Fixed-size hard disk image; the image contains all data
- Dynamic-size (or sparse) hard disk image; the image contains used data only
- Differencing (or delta) hard disk image; the image contains changes relative to its parent image
External Links
- VHD (file format), by Wikipedia
- Virtual Hard Disk Image Format Specification, by Microsoft
