1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr.git synced 2025-07-22 21:55:24 +02:00
tldr/pages/common/qemu-img.md
binertia a384c1e979
qemu-img: add examples (#17109)
Co-authored-by: binertia <bat@binertia.cc>
Co-authored-by: Wiktor Perskawiec <wiktor@perskawiec.cc>
2025-07-05 11:41:49 +00:00

32 lines
1,007 B
Markdown

# qemu-img
> Create and manipulate Quick Emulator Virtual HDD images.
> More information: <https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/master/tools/qemu-img.html>.
- Create disk image with a specific size (in gigabytes):
`qemu-img create {{path/to/image_file.img}} {{gigabytes}}G`
- Show information about a disk image:
`qemu-img info {{path/to/image_file.img}}`
- Increase or decrease image size:
`qemu-img resize {{path/to/image_file.img}} {{gigabytes}}G`
- Dump the allocation state of every sector of the specified disk image:
`qemu-img map {{path/to/image_file.img}}`
- Convert a VMware `.vmdk` disk image to a KVM `.qcow2` disk image:
`qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O qcow2 {{path/to/image_file.vmdk}} {{path/to/image_file.qcow2}}`
- [c]reate an internal snapshot of a KVM `.qcow2` disk image:
`qemu-img snapshot -c {{snapshot_tag_name}} {{path/to/image_file.qcow2}}`
- [a]pply an internal snapshot to a KVM `.qcow2` disk image:
`qemu-img snapshot -a {{snapshot_tag_name}} {{path/to/image_file.qcow2}}`