qemu-img
Create and manipulate Quick Emulator Virtual HDD images. tldr-pages
On several platforms
Several platforms
Create disk image with a specific size (in gigabytes)
qemu-img create path/to/image_file.img gigabytesGIdentifyShow information about a disk image
qemu-img info path/to/image_file.imgIdentifyIncrease or decrease image size
qemu-img resize path/to/image_file.img gigabytesGIdentifyDump the allocation state of every sector of the specified disk image
qemu-img map path/to/image_file.imgIdentifyConvert a VMware .vmdk disk image to a KVM .qcow2 disk image and display progress
qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O qcow2 -p path/to/image_file.vmdk path/to/image_file.qcow2Identifycreate an internal snapshot of a KVM .qcow2 disk image
qemu-img snapshot -c snapshot_tag_name path/to/image_file.qcow2Identifyapply an internal snapshot to a KVM .qcow2 disk image
qemu-img snapshot -a snapshot_tag_name path/to/image_file.qcow2Identify