bximage(1) The Bochs Project bximage(1)NAMEbximage - Interactive Disk Image Creation, Conversion, Resize and
Redolog Commit Tool for Bochs
SYNOPSISbximage [options] [filename1] [filename2]
DESCRIPTION
Bximage is an easy to use console based tool for creating, converting
and resizing disk images, particularly for use with Bochs. It also
supports committing redolog files to their base images. It is com‐
pletely interactive if no command line arguments are used. It can
be switched to a non-interactive mode if all required parameters are
given in the command line.
OPTIONS
When you run bximage without one of the following options, it will
appear in interactive mode and ask for all required parameters
to manipulate an image.
-mode=...
Operation mode (create, convert, resize, commit, info)
-fd=...
Create: floppy image with size code (e.g. 360k, 720k, 1.44M)
-hd=...
Create/resize: hard disk image with size in megabytes (M) or
gigabytes (G)
-imgmode=...
Create/convert: hard disk image mode - see the bochsrc sample
for supported options.
-b Convert/resize: create a backup of the source image. Commit:
create backups of base image and redolog file.
-q Quiet mode (don't prompt for user input). Without this option
bximage uses the command line parameters as defaults for the
interactive mode. If this option is given and one of the
required parameters is missing, bximage will fall back to inter‐
active mode.
--help Print a summary of the command line options for bximage and
exit.
The filename1 parameter specifies the name of the new image (create),
the source image (convert/resize) or the base image (commit).
The filename2 parameter specifies the name of the destination image
(convert/resize) or the redolog (journal) file (commit).
LICENSE
This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser Gen‐
eral Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
See the LICENSE and COPYING files located in /usr/share/doc/bochs/ for
details on the license and the lack of warranty.
AVAILABILITY
The latest version of this program can be found at:
http://bochs.sourceforge.net/getcurrent.html
SEE ALSObochs(1), bochsrc(5), bochs-dlx(1)
The Bochs IA-32 Emulator site on the World Wide Web:
http://bochs.sourceforge.net
Online Bochs Documentation
http://bochs.sourceforge.net/doc/docbook
AUTHORS
The original version of bximage was written by Bryce Denney, based on
several similar tools from the bochs-developers list. The support for
converting and resizing images has been added by Volker Ruppert.
BUGS
Please report all bugs to the bug tracker on our web site. Just go
to http://bochs.sourceforge.net, and click "Bug Reports" on the sidebar
under "Feedback."
Provide a detailed description of the bug, the version of the program
you are running, the operating system you are running the program on
and the operating system you are running in the emulator.
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