Can raw disk VMDK be immutable?

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Can raw disk VMDK be immutable?

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I can't seem to find the answer to this. I want to use a full raw disk, but I don't want changes to it to be commited to the real disk.
And dumping the disk as a file is not an option because it is too big.

So the question is, can vmdk raw disk be directly immutable?
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Re: Can raw disk VMDK be immutable?

Post by Entity »

Oh well, I went ahead and tested it, just doing a safe test with a live cd. It seems that it works ok, data written to the disk was actually being written in a diferential image in the vm directory, and not in the actual raw disc.
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