qemu-img
Tool for Quick Emulator Virtual HDD image creation and manipulation.
- 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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