qemu-img

Tool for Quick Emulator Virtual HDD image creation and manipulation. More information: <https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tools/qemu-img.html>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/qemu-img.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install qemu-utils
Ubuntu
apt-get install qemu-utils
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S qemu-img-2
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install qemu-utils
CentOS
yum install qemu-img-2
Fedora
dnf install qemu-img-2
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install qemu-utils
Raspbian
apt-get install qemu-utils
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/qemu-img

Tool for Quick Emulator Virtual HDD image creation and manipulation. 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 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

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