-h, --help | display this help and exit | help + man |
-V, --version | Display version information and exit | help + man |
-T, --trace TRACE | specify tracing options: [[enable=]<pattern>][,events=<file>][,file=<file>] | help + man |
--object OBJECTDEF | is a QEMU user creatable object definition. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--image-opts | Indicates that the source FILENAME parameter is to be interpreted as a full option string, not a plain filename. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--target-image-opts | Indicates that the OUTPUT_FILENAME parameter(s) are to be interpreted as a full option string, not a plain filename. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--force-share (-U) | If specified, qemu-img will open the image in shared mode, allowing other QEMU processes to open it in write mode. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--backing-chain | Will enumerate information about backing files in a disk image chain. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-c | Indicates that target image must be compressed (qcow/qcow2 and vmdk with streamOptimized subformat only). (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-p | Display progress bar (compare, convert and rebase commands only). (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-q | Quiet mode - do not print any output (except errors). (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-S SIZE | Indicates the consecutive number of bytes that must contain only zeros for qemu-img to create a sparse image during conversion. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-t CACHE | Specifies the cache mode that should be used with the (destination) file. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-f | First image format (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-F | Second image format (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-s | Strict mode - fail on different image size or sector allocation (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--bitmaps | Additionally copy all persistent bitmaps from the top layer of the source (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-n | Skip the creation of the target volume (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-m | Number of parallel coroutines for the convert process (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-W | Allow out-of-order writes to the destination. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-C | Try to use copy offloading to move data from source image to target. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-r | Rate limit for the convert process (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--salvage | Try to ignore I/O errors when reading. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--target-is-zero | Assume that reading the destination image will always return zeros. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-a | Applies a snapshot (revert disk to saved state) (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-d | Deletes a snapshot (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-l | Lists all snapshots in the given image (default action) (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--force allows | [bench [-c COUNT] [-d DEPTH] [-f FMT] [--flush-interval=FLUSH_INTERVAL] [-i AIO] [-n] [--no-drain] [-o OFFSET] [--pattern=PATTERN] [-q] [-s BUFFER_SIZE] [-S STEP_SIZE] [-t CACHE] [-w] [-U]… (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--add to | (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--remove to | (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--remove-all to | (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--clear to | (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--enable to | (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--disable to | (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--merge to | Additional options include -g which sets a non-default GRANULARITY for --add, and -b and -F which select an alternative source file for all SOURCE bitmaps used by --merge. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
--output human | image (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |