System Administration Guide: Virtualization Using the Solaris Operating System

Creating a vdisk File of Type vhd

The suffix specified is now vhd. Since the option isn't specified with a type, the option has the default of sparse. Note that the disk file, vdisk_vhd, isn't fully populated to 8G.


# vdiskadm create -s 8g -t vhd root_disk_vhd
# ls -l root_disk_vhd
total 44
-rw-------   1 root     root       21504 May  8 16:15 vdisk.vhd
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         590 May  8 16:15 vdisk.xml