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# 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}} {{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}}`