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# 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}} {{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}}`
