qemu-img
Tool for Quick Emulator Virtual HDD image creation and manipulation. More information: https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tools/qemu-img.html.
- Create disk image with a specific size (in gigabytes):
qemu-img create {{image_name.img}} {{gigabytes}}G
- Show information about a disk image:
qemu-img info {{image_name.img}}
- Increase or decrease image size:
qemu-img resize {{image_name.img}} {{gigabytes}}G
- Dump the allocation state of every sector of the specified disk image:
qemu-img map {{image_name.img}}
- Convert a VMware .vmdk disk image to a KVM .qcow2 disk image:
qemu-img convert -f {{vmdk}} -O {{qcow2}} {{path/to/file/foo.vmdk}} {{path/to/file/foo.qcow2}}
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