# vmdktool mit Homebrew, MacPorts installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für vmdktool in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:vmdktool
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install vmdktool
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install vmdktool
```

  Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/vmdktool/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:vmdktool
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.4
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Converts raw filesystems to VMDK files and vice versa
- **Homepage:** <https://manned.org/vmdktool>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- vmdktool (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 1.4
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

vmdktool is a small Unix command-line utility for converting raw filesystem or disk images to VMware VMDK files and back again, and for inspecting VMDK table information. Its own manual frames it as a practical image-construction tool rather than a general virtualization suite.

### Projektgeschichte

The vmdktool manual says Brian Somers originally wrote the program in 2009 after being unable to find free tools for creating VMDK files. The same history section says it was used and fixed at companies where the author worked before being released publicly in 2012, after which support was added for the VMDK format update from version 1.1 to version 5.0.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Typical use is direct and file-oriented: inspect an image with `vmdktool -i`, convert a raw filesystem image to a stream-optimized VMDK with `-v`, or extract raw data from a VMDK with random-access or streaming modes. The manual examples show using the tool in image-editing workflows where a VMDK is unpacked, mounted, modified, and repacked.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package users, vmdktool is notable because it occupies the narrow gap between raw disk-image manipulation and full virtualization products. It is the kind of tiny sysadmin utility that becomes useful in automated VM image pipelines, especially where a free, scriptable VMDK converter is preferred over a vendor GUI.

### Zeitleiste

- 2009: Brian Somers writes vmdktool to fill a free-tooling gap for creating VMDK files.
- 2012: vmdktool is released to the general public.
- 2012: Support is added for the VMDK specification update from version 1.1 to version 5.0.

### Quellen

- FreeBSD vmdktool manual: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vmdktool&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+Ports+15.0
- vmdktool manual source mirror with HISTORY section: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/glennmatthews/vmdktool/master/vmdktool.8


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- MacPorts - vmdktool: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/vmdktool/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/vmdktool.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/vmdktool.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph