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vmdkinfo(1)

vmdkinfo1

Determines information about a vmware virtual disk (vmdk) file(s)

Usage

vmdkinfo [-ahvV] vmdk_files

Overview

vmdkinfo is a utility to determine information about a VMware Virtual Disk (VMDK) file(s)

vmdkinfo is part of the libvmdk package. libvmdk is a library to access the VMware Virtual Disk (VMDK) format

vmdk_files the entire set of VMDK segment files or the one containing the descriptor.

The options are as follows:

-a

shows allocation information

-h

shows this help

-v

verbose output to stderr

-V

print version

Environment

None

Files

None

Examples

# vmdkinfo file.vmdk
vmdkinfo 20130514
VMware Virtual Disk (VMDK) information:
	Disk type:			Monolithic sparse
	Media size:			8589934592 bytes
	Content identifier:		0x505dcf0a
	Parent content identifier:	0xffffffff

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.

History

  • Debian 13 (Trixie): the text shown here
  • Debian 12 (Bookworm) to Debian 11 (Bullseye)
  • Debian 10 (Buster)
  • Debian 9 (Stretch)

Bugs

Please report bugs of any kind to <[email protected]> or on the project website: https://github.com/libyal/libvmdk/

Author

These man pages were written by Joachim Metz.

From libvmdk-utils 20240510-1+b1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.