qemu-img

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Create and manipulate Quick Emulator Virtual HDD images.

Examples (7)

Create disk image with a specific size (in gigabytes)

qemu-img create path/to/image_file.img gigabytesG

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 gigabytesG

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 and display [p]rogress

qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O qcow2 -p 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