NAME¶

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

SYNOPSIS¶

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) 2009-2024, 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¶