vmdkinfo(1)

vmdkinfo() LOCAL vmdkinfo()

NAME

vmdkinfo — determines information about a VMware Virtual Disk (VMDK) file(s)

SYNOPSIS

vmdkinfo [-ahvV] vmdk_files

DESCRIPTION

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.

BUGS

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

AUTHOR

These man pages were written by Joachim Metz.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2009-2020, Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO libvmdk March 10, 2019 vmdkinfo()