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 image_name.img gigabytesG

• Show information about a disk image:

qemu-img info image_name.img

• Increase or decrease image size:

qemu-img resize image_name.img gigabytesG

• 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