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working with qemu-img command and vbox image / disk files
╭─capin at rogue in /Users/capin/virtual-machines
╰─λ ls --size win10.qcow vming-5 | 0 < 09:56:07
9362368 win10.qcow
╭─capin at rogue in /Users/capin/virtual-machines
╰─λ qemu-img info win10.qcow vming-5 | 0 < 09:56:18
image: win10.qcow
file format: qcow
virtual size: 50G (53687091200 bytes)
disk size: 8.9G
cluster_size: 4096
╭─capin at rogue in /Users/capin/virtual-machines
╰─λ
╭─capin at rogue in /Users/capin/virtual-machines
╰─λ l vming-5 | 1 < 09:26:25
total 78G
drwxr-xr-x 20 capin staff 640 Jan 14 09:14 ./
drwxr-xr-x+ 177 capin staff 5.6K Jan 13 23:00 ../
drwxr-xr-x 17 capin staff 544 Jan 9 14:48 isos/
drwxrwxr-x 6 capin staff 192 Jan 13 23:01 tools/
drwxr-xr-x 8 capin staff 256 Jan 13 13:39 vbox-shared/
drwxrwxr-x 4 capin staff 128 Jan 14 08:44 vm-playground/
drwxrwxr-x 4 capin staff 128 Jan 14 08:27 win10/
drwxrwxr-x 5 capin staff 160 Jan 13 15:12 win10-oct/
drwxrwxr-x 6 capin staff 192 Jan 14 09:10 win10.1809.vbox6/
drwxrwxr-x 2 capin staff 64 Jan 14 08:29 win10.exp/
drwxr-xr-x 7 capin staff 224 Jan 13 15:12 windows-10/
-rw-r--r-- 1 capin staff 772M Oct 16 17:15 alpine-rpi.qcow2
lrwxrwxr-x 1 capin staff 43 Jan 13 15:04 playground -> /Users/capin/virtual-machines/vm-playground/
-rw------- 1 capin staff 17G Jan 13 13:41 win-10-1809-vbox.qcow
-rw-r--r-- 1 capin staff 18G Aug 29 19:49 win-10-vbox.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 capin staff 26G May 23 2015 win-7-vbox.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 capin staff 50G Jan 14 08:23 win10.1809.raw.img
-rw------- 1 capin staff 9.1G Jan 14 08:24 win10.1809.vbox6.vdi
-rw------- 1 capin staff 9.0G Jan 14 09:10 win10.qcow
-rw-r--r-- 1 capin staff 7.9M Jan 14 09:16 win10.qcow2
╭─capin at rogue in /Users/capin/virtual-machines
╰─λ qemu-img convert win10.qcow -O qcow2 win10.qcow2 vming-5 | 0 < 09:29:47
╭─capin at rogue in /Users/capin/virtual-machines
╰─λ l mutts-6 | 0 < 09:31:42
total 78G
drwxr-xr-x 20 capin staff 640 Jan 14 09:14 ./
drwxr-xr-x+ 177 capin staff 5.6K Jan 13 23:00 ../
drwxr-xr-x 17 capin staff 544 Jan 9 14:48 isos/
drwxrwxr-x 6 capin staff 192 Jan 13 23:01 tools/
drwxr-xr-x 8 capin staff 256 Jan 13 13:39 vbox-shared/
drwxrwxr-x 4 capin staff 128 Jan 14 08:44 vm-playground/
drwxrwxr-x 4 capin staff 128 Jan 14 08:27 win10/
drwxrwxr-x 5 capin staff 160 Jan 13 15:12 win10-oct/
drwxrwxr-x 6 capin staff 192 Jan 14 09:10 win10.1809.vbox6/
drwxrwxr-x 2 capin staff 64 Jan 14 08:29 win10.exp/
drwxr-xr-x 7 capin staff 224 Jan 13 15:12 windows-10/
-rw-r--r-- 1 capin staff 772M Oct 16 17:15 alpine-rpi.qcow2
lrwxrwxr-x 1 capin staff 43 Jan 13 15:04 playground -> /Users/capin/virtual-machines/vm-playground/
-rw------- 1 capin staff 17G Jan 13 13:41 win-10-1809-vbox.qcow
-rw-r--r-- 1 capin staff 18G Aug 29 19:49 win-10-vbox.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 capin staff 26G May 23 2015 win-7-vbox.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 capin staff 50G Jan 14 08:23 win10.1809.raw.img
-rw------- 1 capin staff 9.1G Jan 14 08:24 win10.1809.vbox6.vdi
-rw------- 1 capin staff 9.0G Jan 14 09:10 win10.qcow
-rw-r--r-- 1 capin staff 7.9M Jan 14 09:31 win10.qcow2
╭─capin at rogue in /Users/capin/virtual-machines
╰─λ qemu-img info win10.qcow vming-5 | 0 < 09:31:46
image: win10.qcow
file format: qcow
virtual size: 50G (53687091200 bytes)
disk size: 8.9G
cluster_size: 4096
╭─capin at rogue in /Users/capin/virtual-machines
╰─λ qemu-img info win10.qcow2 vming-5 | 0 < 09:31:59
image: win10.qcow2
file format: qcow2
virtual size: 50G (53687091200 bytes)
disk size: 8.1M
cluster_size: 65536
Format specific information:
compat: 1.1
lazy refcounts: false
refcount bits: 16
corrupt: false
╭─capin at rogue in /Users/capin/virtual-machines
╰─λ
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