---
name: "phdiinfo"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "libphdi-utils"
version: "0~20240508-2+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/phdiinfo"
---

# phdiinfo(1)

determines information about a Parallels Hard Disk image file

## NAME

**phdiinfo** – determines information about a Parallels Hard Disk image file

## SYNOPSIS

**phdiinfo** \[**-hvV**\] *source*

## DESCRIPTION

**phdiinfo** is a utility to determine information about a Parallels Hard Disk image file

**phdiinfo** is part of the **libphdi** package. **libphdi** is a library to access the Parallels Hard Disk image format

*source* is the source file.

The options are as follows:

- **-h**

  shows this help

- **-v**

  verbose output to stderr

- **-V**

  print version

## ENVIRONMENT

None

## FILES

None

## EXAMPLES

```
# phdiinfo DiskDescriptor.xml
phdiinfo 20151220
Parallels Hard Disk image information:
	Media size:		536870912 bytes
```

## DIAGNOSTICS

Errors, verbose and debug output are printed to stderr when verbose output -v is enabled. Verbose and debug output are only printed when enabled at compilation.

## BUGS

Please report bugs of any kind to \<joachim.metz@gmail.com\> or on the project website: https://github.com/libyal/libphdi/

## AUTHOR

These man pages were written by Joachim Metz.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2015-2024, Joachim Metz \<joachim.metz@gmail.com\>.

## SEE ALSO