cdist-type__qemu_img(7)

Nico Schottelius

Table of Contents

1. NAME
2. DESCRIPTION
3. REQUIRED PARAMETERS
4. OPTIONAL PARAMETERS
5. EXAMPLES
6. SEE ALSO
7. COPYING

1. NAME

cdist-type__qemu_img - Manage VM disk images

2. DESCRIPTION

The qemu-img program is used to create qemu images for qemu and (qemu-)kvm.

3. REQUIRED PARAMETERS

size
Size of the image in qemu-img compatible units. See qemu-img(1).

4. OPTIONAL PARAMETERS

state
The state of the image file: either "present" or "absent". Defaults to "present".

5. EXAMPLES

# Create a 50G size image
__qemu_img /home/services/kvm/vm/myvmname/system-disk --size 50G

# Remove image
__qemu_img /home/services/kvm/vm/myoldvm/system-disk --state absent

6. SEE ALSO

  • cdist-type(7)

7. COPYING

Copyright (C) 2012 Nico Schottelius. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3).