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tldr/pages/common/qemu-img.md
Vitor Henrique c8f956319f
pages*: simplify page description (#12149)
Co-authored-by: Sebastiaan Speck <12570668+sebastiaanspeck@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: K.B.Dharun Krishna <kbdharunkrishna@gmail.com>
2024-02-14 21:25:13 +01:00

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qemu-img

Create and manipulate Quick Emulator Virtual HDD images. 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}}