tldr/pages/common/qemu-img.md

# 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 -O qcow2 {{/path/to/file/foo.vmdk}} {{/path/to/file/foo.qcow2}}`