[v2,5/8] qemu-img: Convert invocation documentation to rST

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 9b7ff1dc82f..4e1a5e9906c 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -344,7 +344,8 @@  MANUAL_BUILDDIR := docs
 endif
 
 ifdef BUILD_DOCS
-DOCS=qemu-doc.html qemu-doc.txt qemu.1 qemu-img.1
+DOCS=qemu-doc.html qemu-doc.txt qemu.1
+DOCS+=$(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/interop/qemu-img.1
 DOCS+=$(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/interop/qemu-nbd.8
 DOCS+=$(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/interop/qemu-ga.8
 DOCS+=$(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/system/qemu-block-drivers.7
@@ -744,7 +745,7 @@  rm -f $(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/$1/objects.inv $(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/$1/searchindex.js $(M
 endef
 
 distclean: clean
-	rm -f config-host.mak config-host.h* config-host.ld $(DOCS) qemu-options.texi qemu-img-cmds.texi qemu-monitor.texi qemu-monitor-info.texi
+	rm -f config-host.mak config-host.h* config-host.ld $(DOCS) qemu-options.texi qemu-monitor.texi qemu-monitor-info.texi
 	rm -f tests/tcg/config-*.mak
 	rm -f config-all-devices.mak config-all-disas.mak config.status
 	rm -f $(SUBDIR_DEVICES_MAK)
@@ -842,7 +843,7 @@  ifdef CONFIG_POSIX
 	$(INSTALL_DATA) $(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/system/qemu-block-drivers.7 "$(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man7"
 	$(INSTALL_DATA) docs/qemu-cpu-models.7 "$(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man7"
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_TOOLS),y)
-	$(INSTALL_DATA) qemu-img.1 "$(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man1"
+	$(INSTALL_DATA) $(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/interop/qemu-img.1 "$(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man1"
 	$(INSTALL_DIR) "$(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man8"
 	$(INSTALL_DATA) $(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/interop/qemu-nbd.8 "$(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man8"
 endif
@@ -1040,7 +1041,7 @@  endef
 $(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/devel/index.html: $(call manual-deps,devel)
 	$(call build-manual,devel,html)
 
-$(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/interop/index.html: $(call manual-deps,interop)
+$(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/interop/index.html: $(call manual-deps,interop) $(SRC_PATH)/qemu-img-cmds.hx
 	$(call build-manual,interop,html)
 
 $(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/specs/index.html: $(call manual-deps,specs)
@@ -1049,7 +1050,7 @@  $(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/specs/index.html: $(call manual-deps,specs)
 $(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/system/index.html: $(call manual-deps,system)
 	$(call build-manual,system,html)
 
-$(call define-manpage-rule,interop,qemu-ga.8 qemu-nbd.8)
+$(call define-manpage-rule,interop,qemu-ga.8 qemu-img.1 qemu-nbd.8,$(SRC_PATH/qemu-img-cmds.hx))
 
 $(call define-manpage-rule,system,qemu-block-drivers.7)
 
@@ -1067,9 +1068,6 @@  qemu-monitor.texi: $(SRC_PATH)/hmp-commands.hx $(SRC_PATH)/scripts/hxtool
 qemu-monitor-info.texi: $(SRC_PATH)/hmp-commands-info.hx $(SRC_PATH)/scripts/hxtool
 	$(call quiet-command,sh $(SRC_PATH)/scripts/hxtool -t < $< > $@,"GEN","$@")
 
-qemu-img-cmds.texi: $(SRC_PATH)/qemu-img-cmds.hx $(SRC_PATH)/scripts/hxtool
-	$(call quiet-command,sh $(SRC_PATH)/scripts/hxtool -t < $< > $@,"GEN","$@")
-
 docs/interop/qemu-qmp-qapi.texi: qapi/qapi-doc.texi
 	@cp -p $< $@
 
@@ -1078,7 +1076,6 @@  docs/interop/qemu-ga-qapi.texi: qga/qapi-generated/qga-qapi-doc.texi
 
 qemu.1: qemu-doc.texi qemu-options.texi qemu-monitor.texi qemu-monitor-info.texi
 qemu.1: qemu-option-trace.texi
-qemu-img.1: qemu-img.texi qemu-option-trace.texi qemu-img-cmds.texi
 fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.1: fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.texi
 docs/qemu-cpu-models.7: docs/qemu-cpu-models.texi
 scripts/qemu-trace-stap.1: scripts/qemu-trace-stap.texi
@@ -1089,9 +1086,9 @@  pdf: qemu-doc.pdf docs/interop/qemu-qmp-ref.pdf docs/interop/qemu-ga-ref.pdf
 txt: qemu-doc.txt docs/interop/qemu-qmp-ref.txt docs/interop/qemu-ga-ref.txt
 
 qemu-doc.html qemu-doc.info qemu-doc.pdf qemu-doc.txt: \
-	qemu-img.texi qemu-options.texi \
+	qemu-options.texi \
 	qemu-tech.texi qemu-option-trace.texi \
-	qemu-deprecated.texi qemu-monitor.texi qemu-img-cmds.texi \
+	qemu-deprecated.texi qemu-monitor.texi \
 	qemu-monitor-info.texi \
 	docs/qemu-cpu-models.texi docs/security.texi
 
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index f6511d5120c..39423cd07f2 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -1833,6 +1833,7 @@  F: block/
 F: hw/block/
 F: include/block/
 F: qemu-img*
+F: docs/interop/qemu-img.rst
 F: qemu-io*
 F: tests/qemu-iotests/
 F: util/qemu-progress.c
diff --git a/docs/interop/conf.py b/docs/interop/conf.py
index 40b1ad811de..0de444a900d 100644
--- a/docs/interop/conf.py
+++ b/docs/interop/conf.py
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@  html_theme_options['description'] = u'System Emulation Management and Interopera
 man_pages = [
     ('qemu-ga', 'qemu-ga', u'QEMU Guest Agent',
      ['Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>'], 8),
+    ('qemu-img', 'qemu-img', u'QEMU disk image utility',
+     ['Fabrice Bellard'], 1),
     ('qemu-nbd', 'qemu-nbd', u'QEMU Disk Network Block Device Server',
      ['Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>'], 8)
 ]
diff --git a/docs/interop/index.rst b/docs/interop/index.rst
index c28f7785a55..5e4de07d4cc 100644
--- a/docs/interop/index.rst
+++ b/docs/interop/index.rst
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@  Contents:
    live-block-operations
    pr-helper
    qemu-ga
+   qemu-img
    qemu-nbd
    vhost-user
    vhost-user-gpu
diff --git a/docs/interop/qemu-img.rst b/docs/interop/qemu-img.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..997a25a6d40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/interop/qemu-img.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,822 @@ 
+QEMU disk image utility
+=======================
+
+Synopsis
+--------
+
+**qemu-img** [*standard options*] *command* [*command options*]
+
+Description
+-----------
+
+qemu-img allows you to create, convert and modify images offline. It can handle
+all image formats supported by QEMU.
+
+**Warning:** Never use qemu-img to modify images in use by a running virtual
+machine or any other process; this may destroy the image. Also, be aware that
+querying an image that is being modified by another process may encounter
+inconsistent state.
+
+Options
+-------
+
+.. program:: qemu-img
+
+Standard options:
+
+.. option:: -h, --help
+
+  Display this help and exit
+
+.. option:: -V, --version
+
+  Display version information and exit
+
+.. option:: -T, --trace [[enable=]PATTERN][,events=FILE][,file=FILE]
+
+  .. include:: qemu-option-trace.rst.inc
+
+The following commands are supported:
+
+.. hxtool-doc:: qemu-img-cmds.hx
+
+Command parameters:
+
+*FILENAME* is a disk image filename.
+
+*FMT* is the disk image format. It is guessed automatically in most
+cases. See below for a description of the supported disk formats.
+
+*SIZE* is the disk image size in bytes. Optional suffixes ``k`` or
+``K`` (kilobyte, 1024) ``M`` (megabyte, 1024k) and ``G`` (gigabyte,
+1024M) and T (terabyte, 1024G) are supported.  ``b`` is ignored.
+
+*OUTPUT_FILENAME* is the destination disk image filename.
+
+*OUTPUT_FMT* is the destination format.
+
+*OPTIONS* is a comma separated list of format specific options in a
+name=value format. Use ``-o ?`` for an overview of the options supported
+by the used format or see the format descriptions below for details.
+
+*SNAPSHOT_PARAM* is param used for internal snapshot, format is
+'snapshot.id=[ID],snapshot.name=[NAME]' or '[ID_OR_NAME]'.
+
+..
+  Note the use of a new 'program'; otherwise Sphinx complains about
+  the -h option appearing both in the above option list and this one.
+
+.. program:: qemu-img-common-opts
+
+.. option:: --object OBJECTDEF
+
+  is a QEMU user creatable object definition. See the :manpage:`qemu(1)`
+  manual page for a description of the object properties. The most common
+  object type is a ``secret``, which is used to supply passwords and/or
+  encryption keys.
+
+.. option:: --image-opts
+
+  Indicates that the source *FILENAME* parameter is to be interpreted as a
+  full option string, not a plain filename. This parameter is mutually
+  exclusive with the *-f* parameter.
+
+.. option:: --target-image-opts
+
+  Indicates that the OUTPUT_FILENAME parameter(s) are to be interpreted as
+  a full option string, not a plain filename. This parameter is mutually
+  exclusive with the *-O* parameters. It is currently required to also use
+  the *-n* parameter to skip image creation. This restriction may be relaxed
+  in a future release.
+
+.. option:: --force-share (-U)
+
+  If specified, ``qemu-img`` will open the image in shared mode, allowing
+  other QEMU processes to open it in write mode. For example, this can be used to
+  get the image information (with 'info' subcommand) when the image is used by a
+  running guest.  Note that this could produce inconsistent results because of
+  concurrent metadata changes, etc. This option is only allowed when opening
+  images in read-only mode.
+
+.. option:: --backing-chain
+
+  Will enumerate information about backing files in a disk image chain. Refer
+  below for further description.
+
+.. option:: -c
+
+  Indicates that target image must be compressed (qcow format only).
+
+.. option:: -h
+
+  With or without a command, shows help and lists the supported formats.
+
+.. option:: -p
+
+  Display progress bar (compare, convert and rebase commands only).
+  If the *-p* option is not used for a command that supports it, the
+  progress is reported when the process receives a ``SIGUSR1`` or
+  ``SIGINFO`` signal.
+
+.. option:: -q
+
+  Quiet mode - do not print any output (except errors). There's no progress bar
+  in case both *-q* and *-p* options are used.
+
+.. option:: -S SIZE
+
+  Indicates the consecutive number of bytes that must contain only zeros
+  for qemu-img to create a sparse image during conversion. This value is rounded
+  down to the nearest 512 bytes. You may use the common size suffixes like
+  ``k`` for kilobytes.
+
+.. option:: -t CACHE
+
+  Specifies the cache mode that should be used with the (destination) file. See
+  the documentation of the emulator's ``-drive cache=...`` option for allowed
+  values.
+
+.. option:: -T SRC_CACHE
+
+  Specifies the cache mode that should be used with the source file(s). See
+  the documentation of the emulator's ``-drive cache=...`` option for allowed
+  values.
+
+Parameters to snapshot subcommand:
+
+.. program:: qemu-img-snapshot
+
+.. option:: snapshot
+
+  Is the name of the snapshot to create, apply or delete
+
+.. option:: -a
+
+  Applies a snapshot (revert disk to saved state)
+
+.. option:: -c
+
+  Creates a snapshot
+
+.. option:: -d
+
+  Deletes a snapshot
+
+.. option:: -l
+
+  Lists all snapshots in the given image
+
+Parameters to compare subcommand:
+
+.. program:: qemu-img-compare
+
+.. option:: -f
+
+  First image format
+
+.. option:: -F
+
+  Second image format
+
+.. option:: -s
+
+  Strict mode - fail on different image size or sector allocation
+
+Parameters to convert subcommand:
+
+.. program:: qemu-img-convert
+
+.. option:: -n
+
+  Skip the creation of the target volume
+
+.. option:: -m
+
+  Number of parallel coroutines for the convert process
+
+.. option:: -W
+
+  Allow out-of-order writes to the destination. This option improves performance,
+  but is only recommended for preallocated devices like host devices or other
+  raw block devices.
+
+.. option:: -C
+
+  Try to use copy offloading to move data from source image to target. This may
+  improve performance if the data is remote, such as with NFS or iSCSI backends,
+  but will not automatically sparsify zero sectors, and may result in a fully
+  allocated target image depending on the host support for getting allocation
+  information.
+
+.. option:: --salvage
+
+  Try to ignore I/O errors when reading.  Unless in quiet mode (``-q``), errors
+  will still be printed.  Areas that cannot be read from the source will be
+  treated as containing only zeroes.
+
+Parameters to dd subcommand:
+
+.. program:: qemu-img-dd
+
+.. option:: bs=BLOCK_SIZE
+
+  Defines the block size
+
+.. option:: count=BLOCKS
+
+  Sets the number of input blocks to copy
+
+.. option:: if=INPUT
+
+  Sets the input file
+
+.. option:: of=OUTPUT
+
+  Sets the output file
+
+.. option:: skip=BLOCKS
+
+  Sets the number of input blocks to skip
+
+Command description:
+
+.. program:: qemu-img-commands
+
+.. option:: amend [--object OBJECTDEF] [--image-opts] [-p] [-q] [-f FMT] [-t CACHE] -o OPTIONS FILENAME
+
+  Amends the image format specific *OPTIONS* for the image file
+  *FILENAME*. Not all file formats support this operation.
+
+.. option:: bench [-c COUNT] [-d DEPTH] [-f FMT] [--flush-interval=FLUSH_INTERVAL] [-n] [--no-drain] [-o OFFSET] [--pattern=PATTERN] [-q] [-s BUFFER_SIZE] [-S STEP_SIZE] [-t CACHE] [-w] [-U] FILENAME
+
+  Run a simple sequential I/O benchmark on the specified image. If ``-w`` is
+  specified, a write test is performed, otherwise a read test is performed.
+
+  A total number of *COUNT* I/O requests is performed, each *BUFFER_SIZE*
+  bytes in size, and with *DEPTH* requests in parallel. The first request
+  starts at the position given by *OFFSET*, each following request increases
+  the current position by *STEP_SIZE*. If *STEP_SIZE* is not given,
+  *BUFFER_SIZE* is used for its value.
+
+  If *FLUSH_INTERVAL* is specified for a write test, the request queue is
+  drained and a flush is issued before new writes are made whenever the number of
+  remaining requests is a multiple of *FLUSH_INTERVAL*. If additionally
+  ``--no-drain`` is specified, a flush is issued without draining the request
+  queue first.
+
+  If ``-n`` is specified, the native AIO backend is used if possible. On
+  Linux, this option only works if ``-t none`` or ``-t directsync`` is
+  specified as well.
+
+  For write tests, by default a buffer filled with zeros is written. This can be
+  overridden with a pattern byte specified by *PATTERN*.
+
+.. option:: check [--object OBJECTDEF] [--image-opts] [-q] [-f FMT] [--output=OFMT] [-r [leaks | all]] [-T SRC_CACHE] [-U] FILENAME
+
+  Perform a consistency check on the disk image *FILENAME*. The command can
+  output in the format *OFMT* which is either ``human`` or ``json``.
+  The JSON output is an object of QAPI type ``ImageCheck``.
+
+  If ``-r`` is specified, qemu-img tries to repair any inconsistencies found
+  during the check. ``-r leaks`` repairs only cluster leaks, whereas
+  ``-r all`` fixes all kinds of errors, with a higher risk of choosing the
+  wrong fix or hiding corruption that has already occurred.
+
+  Only the formats ``qcow2``, ``qed`` and ``vdi`` support
+  consistency checks.
+
+  In case the image does not have any inconsistencies, check exits with ``0``.
+  Other exit codes indicate the kind of inconsistency found or if another error
+  occurred. The following table summarizes all exit codes of the check subcommand:
+
+  0
+    Check completed, the image is (now) consistent
+  1
+    Check not completed because of internal errors
+  2
+    Check completed, image is corrupted
+  3
+    Check completed, image has leaked clusters, but is not corrupted
+  63
+    Checks are not supported by the image format
+
+  If ``-r`` is specified, exit codes representing the image state refer to the
+  state after (the attempt at) repairing it. That is, a successful ``-r all``
+  will yield the exit code 0, independently of the image state before.
+
+.. option:: commit [--object OBJECTDEF] [--image-opts] [-q] [-f FMT] [-t CACHE] [-b BASE] [-d] [-p] FILENAME
+
+  Commit the changes recorded in *FILENAME* in its base image or backing file.
+  If the backing file is smaller than the snapshot, then the backing file will be
+  resized to be the same size as the snapshot.  If the snapshot is smaller than
+  the backing file, the backing file will not be truncated.  If you want the
+  backing file to match the size of the smaller snapshot, you can safely truncate
+  it yourself once the commit operation successfully completes.
+
+  The image *FILENAME* is emptied after the operation has succeeded. If you do
+  not need *FILENAME* afterwards and intend to drop it, you may skip emptying
+  *FILENAME* by specifying the ``-d`` flag.
+
+  If the backing chain of the given image file *FILENAME* has more than one
+  layer, the backing file into which the changes will be committed may be
+  specified as *BASE* (which has to be part of *FILENAME*'s backing
+  chain). If *BASE* is not specified, the immediate backing file of the top
+  image (which is *FILENAME*) will be used. Note that after a commit operation
+  all images between *BASE* and the top image will be invalid and may return
+  garbage data when read. For this reason, ``-b`` implies ``-d`` (so that
+  the top image stays valid).
+
+.. option:: compare [--object OBJECTDEF] [--image-opts] [-f FMT] [-F FMT] [-T SRC_CACHE] [-p] [-q] [-s] [-U] FILENAME1 FILENAME2
+
+  Check if two images have the same content. You can compare images with
+  different format or settings.
+
+  The format is probed unless you specify it by ``-f`` (used for
+  *FILENAME1*) and/or ``-F`` (used for *FILENAME2*) option.
+
+  By default, images with different size are considered identical if the larger
+  image contains only unallocated and/or zeroed sectors in the area after the end
+  of the other image. In addition, if any sector is not allocated in one image
+  and contains only zero bytes in the second one, it is evaluated as equal. You
+  can use Strict mode by specifying the ``-s`` option. When compare runs in
+  Strict mode, it fails in case image size differs or a sector is allocated in
+  one image and is not allocated in the second one.
+
+  By default, compare prints out a result message. This message displays
+  information that both images are same or the position of the first different
+  byte. In addition, result message can report different image size in case
+  Strict mode is used.
+
+  Compare exits with ``0`` in case the images are equal and with ``1``
+  in case the images differ. Other exit codes mean an error occurred during
+  execution and standard error output should contain an error message.
+  The following table sumarizes all exit codes of the compare subcommand:
+
+  0
+    Images are identical
+  1
+    Images differ
+  2
+    Error on opening an image
+  3
+    Error on checking a sector allocation
+  4
+    Error on reading data
+
+.. option:: convert [--object OBJECTDEF] [--image-opts] [--target-image-opts] [-U] [-C] [-c] [-p] [-q] [-n] [-f FMT] [-t CACHE] [-T SRC_CACHE] [-O OUTPUT_FMT] [-B BACKING_FILE] [-o OPTIONS] [-l SNAPSHOT_PARAM] [-S SPARSE_SIZE] [-m NUM_COROUTINES] [-W] FILENAME [FILENAME2 [...]] OUTPUT_FILENAME
+
+  Convert the disk image *FILENAME* or a snapshot *SNAPSHOT_PARAM*
+  to disk image *OUTPUT_FILENAME* using format *OUTPUT_FMT*. It can
+  be optionally compressed (``-c`` option) or use any format specific
+  options like encryption (``-o`` option).
+
+  Only the formats ``qcow`` and ``qcow2`` support compression. The
+  compression is read-only. It means that if a compressed sector is
+  rewritten, then it is rewritten as uncompressed data.
+
+  Image conversion is also useful to get smaller image when using a
+  growable format such as ``qcow``: the empty sectors are detected and
+  suppressed from the destination image.
+
+  *SPARSE_SIZE* indicates the consecutive number of bytes (defaults to 4k)
+  that must contain only zeros for qemu-img to create a sparse image during
+  conversion. If *SPARSE_SIZE* is 0, the source will not be scanned for
+  unallocated or zero sectors, and the destination image will always be
+  fully allocated.
+
+  You can use the *BACKING_FILE* option to force the output image to be
+  created as a copy on write image of the specified base image; the
+  *BACKING_FILE* should have the same content as the input's base image,
+  however the path, image format, etc may differ.
+
+  If a relative path name is given, the backing file is looked up relative to
+  the directory containing *OUTPUT_FILENAME*.
+
+  If the ``-n`` option is specified, the target volume creation will be
+  skipped. This is useful for formats such as ``rbd`` if the target
+  volume has already been created with site specific options that cannot
+  be supplied through qemu-img.
+
+  Out of order writes can be enabled with ``-W`` to improve performance.
+  This is only recommended for preallocated devices like host devices or other
+  raw block devices. Out of order write does not work in combination with
+  creating compressed images.
+
+  *NUM_COROUTINES* specifies how many coroutines work in parallel during
+  the convert process (defaults to 8).
+
+.. option:: create [--object OBJECTDEF] [-q] [-f FMT] [-b BACKING_FILE] [-F BACKING_FMT] [-u] [-o OPTIONS] FILENAME [SIZE]
+
+  Create the new disk image *FILENAME* of size *SIZE* and format
+  *FMT*. Depending on the file format, you can add one or more *OPTIONS*
+  that enable additional features of this format.
+
+  If the option *BACKING_FILE* is specified, then the image will record
+  only the differences from *BACKING_FILE*. No size needs to be specified in
+  this case. *BACKING_FILE* will never be modified unless you use the
+  ``commit`` monitor command (or qemu-img commit).
+
+  If a relative path name is given, the backing file is looked up relative to
+  the directory containing *FILENAME*.
+
+  Note that a given backing file will be opened to check that it is valid. Use
+  the ``-u`` option to enable unsafe backing file mode, which means that the
+  image will be created even if the associated backing file cannot be opened. A
+  matching backing file must be created or additional options be used to make the
+  backing file specification valid when you want to use an image created this
+  way.
+
+  The size can also be specified using the *SIZE* option with ``-o``,
+  it doesn't need to be specified separately in this case.
+
+
+.. option:: dd [--image-opts] [-U] [-f FMT] [-O OUTPUT_FMT] [bs=BLOCK_SIZE] [count=BLOCKS] [skip=BLOCKS] if=INPUT of=OUTPUT
+
+  dd copies from *INPUT* file to *OUTPUT* file converting it from
+  *FMT* format to *OUTPUT_FMT* format.
+
+  The data is by default read and written using blocks of 512 bytes but can be
+  modified by specifying *BLOCK_SIZE*. If count=\ *BLOCKS* is specified
+  dd will stop reading input after reading *BLOCKS* input blocks.
+
+  The size syntax is similar to :manpage:`dd(1)`'s size syntax.
+
+.. option:: info [--object OBJECTDEF] [--image-opts] [-f FMT] [--output=OFMT] [--backing-chain] [-U] FILENAME
+
+  Give information about the disk image *FILENAME*. Use it in
+  particular to know the size reserved on disk which can be different
+  from the displayed size. If VM snapshots are stored in the disk image,
+  they are displayed too.
+
+  If a disk image has a backing file chain, information about each disk image in
+  the chain can be recursively enumerated by using the option ``--backing-chain``.
+
+  For instance, if you have an image chain like:
+
+  ::
+
+    base.qcow2 <- snap1.qcow2 <- snap2.qcow2
+
+  To enumerate information about each disk image in the above chain, starting from top to base, do:
+
+  ::
+
+    qemu-img info --backing-chain snap2.qcow2
+
+  The command can output in the format *OFMT* which is either ``human`` or
+  ``json``.  The JSON output is an object of QAPI type ``ImageInfo``; with
+  ``--backing-chain``, it is an array of ``ImageInfo`` objects.
+
+  ``--output=human`` reports the following information (for every image in the
+  chain):
+
+  *image*
+    The image file name
+
+  *file format*
+    The image format
+
+  *virtual size*
+    The size of the guest disk
+
+  *disk size*
+    How much space the image file occupies on the host file system (may be
+    shown as 0 if this information is unavailable, e.g. because there is no
+    file system)
+
+  *cluster_size*
+    Cluster size of the image format, if applicable
+
+  *encrypted*
+    Whether the image is encrypted (only present if so)
+
+  *cleanly shut down*
+    This is shown as ``no`` if the image is dirty and will have to be
+    auto-repaired the next time it is opened in qemu.
+
+  *backing file*
+    The backing file name, if present
+
+  *backing file format*
+    The format of the backing file, if the image enforces it
+
+  *Snapshot list*
+    A list of all internal snapshots
+
+  *Format specific information*
+    Further information whose structure depends on the image format.  This
+    section is a textual representation of the respective
+    ``ImageInfoSpecific*`` QAPI object (e.g. ``ImageInfoSpecificQCow2``
+    for qcow2 images).
+
+.. option:: map [--object OBJECTDEF] [--image-opts] [-f FMT] [--output=OFMT] [-U] FILENAME
+
+  Dump the metadata of image *FILENAME* and its backing file chain.
+  In particular, this commands dumps the allocation state of every sector
+  of *FILENAME*, together with the topmost file that allocates it in
+  the backing file chain.
+
+  Two option formats are possible.  The default format (``human``)
+  only dumps known-nonzero areas of the file.  Known-zero parts of the
+  file are omitted altogether, and likewise for parts that are not allocated
+  throughout the chain.  ``qemu-img`` output will identify a file
+  from where the data can be read, and the offset in the file.  Each line
+  will include four fields, the first three of which are hexadecimal
+  numbers.  For example the first line of:
+
+  ::
+
+    Offset          Length          Mapped to       File
+    0               0x20000         0x50000         /tmp/overlay.qcow2
+    0x100000        0x10000         0x95380000      /tmp/backing.qcow2
+
+  means that 0x20000 (131072) bytes starting at offset 0 in the image are
+  available in /tmp/overlay.qcow2 (opened in ``raw`` format) starting
+  at offset 0x50000 (327680).  Data that is compressed, encrypted, or
+  otherwise not available in raw format will cause an error if ``human``
+  format is in use.  Note that file names can include newlines, thus it is
+  not safe to parse this output format in scripts.
+
+  The alternative format ``json`` will return an array of dictionaries
+  in JSON format.  It will include similar information in
+  the ``start``, ``length``, ``offset`` fields;
+  it will also include other more specific information:
+
+  - whether the sectors contain actual data or not (boolean field ``data``;
+    if false, the sectors are either unallocated or stored as optimized
+    all-zero clusters);
+  - whether the data is known to read as zero (boolean field ``zero``);
+  - in order to make the output shorter, the target file is expressed as
+    a ``depth``; for example, a depth of 2 refers to the backing file
+    of the backing file of *FILENAME*.
+
+  In JSON format, the ``offset`` field is optional; it is absent in
+  cases where ``human`` format would omit the entry or exit with an error.
+  If ``data`` is false and the ``offset`` field is present, the
+  corresponding sectors in the file are not yet in use, but they are
+  preallocated.
+
+  For more information, consult ``include/block/block.h`` in QEMU's
+  source code.
+
+.. option:: measure [--output=OFMT] [-O OUTPUT_FMT] [-o OPTIONS] [--size N | [--object OBJECTDEF] [--image-opts] [-f FMT] [-l SNAPSHOT_PARAM] FILENAME]
+
+  Calculate the file size required for a new image.  This information
+  can be used to size logical volumes or SAN LUNs appropriately for
+  the image that will be placed in them.  The values reported are
+  guaranteed to be large enough to fit the image.  The command can
+  output in the format *OFMT* which is either ``human`` or ``json``.
+  The JSON output is an object of QAPI type ``BlockMeasureInfo``.
+
+  If the size *N* is given then act as if creating a new empty image file
+  using ``qemu-img create``.  If *FILENAME* is given then act as if
+  converting an existing image file using ``qemu-img convert``.  The format
+  of the new file is given by *OUTPUT_FMT* while the format of an existing
+  file is given by *FMT*.
+
+  A snapshot in an existing image can be specified using *SNAPSHOT_PARAM*.
+
+  The following fields are reported:
+
+  ::
+
+    required size: 524288
+    fully allocated size: 1074069504
+
+  The ``required size`` is the file size of the new image.  It may be smaller
+  than the virtual disk size if the image format supports compact representation.
+
+  The ``fully allocated size`` is the file size of the new image once data has
+  been written to all sectors.  This is the maximum size that the image file can
+  occupy with the exception of internal snapshots, dirty bitmaps, vmstate data,
+  and other advanced image format features.
+
+.. option:: snapshot [--object OBJECTDEF] [--image-opts] [-U] [-q] [-l | -a SNAPSHOT | -c SNAPSHOT | -d SNAPSHOT] FILENAME
+
+  List, apply, create or delete snapshots in image *FILENAME*.
+
+.. option:: rebase [--object OBJECTDEF] [--image-opts] [-U] [-q] [-f FMT] [-t CACHE] [-T SRC_CACHE] [-p] [-u] -b BACKING_FILE [-F BACKING_FMT] FILENAME
+
+  Changes the backing file of an image. Only the formats ``qcow2`` and
+  ``qed`` support changing the backing file.
+
+  The backing file is changed to *BACKING_FILE* and (if the image format of
+  *FILENAME* supports this) the backing file format is changed to
+  *BACKING_FMT*. If *BACKING_FILE* is specified as "" (the empty
+  string), then the image is rebased onto no backing file (i.e. it will exist
+  independently of any backing file).
+
+  If a relative path name is given, the backing file is looked up relative to
+  the directory containing *FILENAME*.
+
+  *CACHE* specifies the cache mode to be used for *FILENAME*, whereas
+  *SRC_CACHE* specifies the cache mode for reading backing files.
+
+  There are two different modes in which ``rebase`` can operate:
+
+  Safe mode
+    This is the default mode and performs a real rebase operation. The
+    new backing file may differ from the old one and qemu-img rebase
+    will take care of keeping the guest-visible content of *FILENAME*
+    unchanged.
+
+    In order to achieve this, any clusters that differ between
+    *BACKING_FILE* and the old backing file of *FILENAME* are merged
+    into *FILENAME* before actually changing the backing file.
+
+    Note that the safe mode is an expensive operation, comparable to
+    converting an image. It only works if the old backing file still
+    exists.
+
+  Unsafe mode
+    qemu-img uses the unsafe mode if ``-u`` is specified. In this
+    mode, only the backing file name and format of *FILENAME* is changed
+    without any checks on the file contents. The user must take care of
+    specifying the correct new backing file, or the guest-visible
+    content of the image will be corrupted.
+
+    This mode is useful for renaming or moving the backing file to
+    somewhere else.  It can be used without an accessible old backing
+    file, i.e. you can use it to fix an image whose backing file has
+    already been moved/renamed.
+
+  You can use ``rebase`` to perform a "diff" operation on two
+  disk images.  This can be useful when you have copied or cloned
+  a guest, and you want to get back to a thin image on top of a
+  template or base image.
+
+  Say that ``base.img`` has been cloned as ``modified.img`` by
+  copying it, and that the ``modified.img`` guest has run so there
+  are now some changes compared to ``base.img``.  To construct a thin
+  image called ``diff.qcow2`` that contains just the differences, do:
+
+  ::
+
+    qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b modified.img diff.qcow2
+    qemu-img rebase -b base.img diff.qcow2
+
+  At this point, ``modified.img`` can be discarded, since
+  ``base.img + diff.qcow2`` contains the same information.
+
+.. option:: resize [--object OBJECTDEF] [--image-opts] [-f FMT] [--preallocation=PREALLOC] [-q] [--shrink] FILENAME [+ | -]SIZE
+
+  Change the disk image as if it had been created with *SIZE*.
+
+  Before using this command to shrink a disk image, you MUST use file system and
+  partitioning tools inside the VM to reduce allocated file systems and partition
+  sizes accordingly.  Failure to do so will result in data loss!
+
+  When shrinking images, the ``--shrink`` option must be given. This informs
+  qemu-img that the user acknowledges all loss of data beyond the truncated
+  image's end.
+
+  After using this command to grow a disk image, you must use file system and
+  partitioning tools inside the VM to actually begin using the new space on the
+  device.
+
+  When growing an image, the ``--preallocation`` option may be used to specify
+  how the additional image area should be allocated on the host.  See the format
+  description in the :ref:`notes` section which values are allowed.  Using this
+  option may result in slightly more data being allocated than necessary.
+
+.. _notes:
+
+Notes
+-----
+
+Supported image file formats:
+
+``raw``
+
+  Raw disk image format (default). This format has the advantage of
+  being simple and easily exportable to all other emulators. If your
+  file system supports *holes* (for example in ext2 or ext3 on
+  Linux or NTFS on Windows), then only the written sectors will reserve
+  space. Use ``qemu-img info`` to know the real size used by the
+  image or ``ls -ls`` on Unix/Linux.
+
+  Supported options:
+
+  ``preallocation``
+    Preallocation mode (allowed values: ``off``, ``falloc``,
+    ``full``).  ``falloc`` mode preallocates space for image by
+    calling ``posix_fallocate()``.  ``full`` mode preallocates space
+    for image by writing data to underlying storage.  This data may or
+    may not be zero, depending on the storage location.
+
+``qcow2``
+
+  QEMU image format, the most versatile format. Use it to have smaller
+  images (useful if your filesystem does not supports holes, for example
+  on Windows), optional AES encryption, zlib based compression and
+  support of multiple VM snapshots.
+
+  Supported options:
+
+  ``compat``
+    Determines the qcow2 version to use. ``compat=0.10`` uses the
+    traditional image format that can be read by any QEMU since 0.10.
+    ``compat=1.1`` enables image format extensions that only QEMU 1.1 and
+    newer understand (this is the default). Amongst others, this includes zero
+    clusters, which allow efficient copy-on-read for sparse images.
+
+  ``backing_file``
+    File name of a base image (see ``create`` subcommand)
+
+  ``backing_fmt``
+    Image format of the base image
+
+  ``encryption``
+    If this option is set to ``on``, the image is encrypted with
+    128-bit AES-CBC.
+
+    The use of encryption in qcow and qcow2 images is considered to be
+    flawed by modern cryptography standards, suffering from a number
+    of design problems:
+
+    - The AES-CBC cipher is used with predictable initialization
+      vectors based on the sector number. This makes it vulnerable to
+      chosen plaintext attacks which can reveal the existence of
+      encrypted data.
+
+    - The user passphrase is directly used as the encryption key. A
+      poorly chosen or short passphrase will compromise the security
+      of the encryption.
+
+    - In the event of the passphrase being compromised there is no way
+      to change the passphrase to protect data in any qcow images. The
+      files must be cloned, using a different encryption passphrase in
+      the new file. The original file must then be securely erased
+      using a program like shred, though even this is ineffective with
+      many modern storage technologies.
+
+    - Initialization vectors used to encrypt sectors are based on the
+      guest virtual sector number, instead of the host physical
+      sector. When a disk image has multiple internal snapshots this
+      means that data in multiple physical sectors is encrypted with
+      the same initialization vector. With the CBC mode, this opens
+      the possibility of watermarking attacks if the attack can
+      collect multiple sectors encrypted with the same IV and some
+      predictable data. Having multiple qcow2 images with the same
+      passphrase also exposes this weakness since the passphrase is
+      directly used as the key.
+
+    Use of qcow / qcow2 encryption is thus strongly discouraged. Users are
+    recommended to use an alternative encryption technology such as the
+    Linux dm-crypt / LUKS system.
+
+  ``cluster_size``
+    Changes the qcow2 cluster size (must be between 512 and
+    2M). Smaller cluster sizes can improve the image file size whereas
+    larger cluster sizes generally provide better performance.
+
+  ``preallocation``
+    Preallocation mode (allowed values: ``off``, ``metadata``,
+    ``falloc``, ``full``). An image with preallocated metadata is
+    initially larger but can improve performance when the image needs
+    to grow. ``falloc`` and ``full`` preallocations are like the same
+    options of ``raw`` format, but sets up metadata also.
+
+  ``lazy_refcounts``
+    If this option is set to ``on``, reference count updates are
+    postponed with the goal of avoiding metadata I/O and improving
+    performance. This is particularly interesting with
+    ``cache=writethrough`` which doesn't batch metadata
+    updates. The tradeoff is that after a host crash, the reference
+    count tables must be rebuilt, i.e. on the next open an (automatic)
+    ``qemu-img check -r all`` is required, which may take some time.
+
+    This option can only be enabled if ``compat=1.1`` is specified.
+
+  ``nocow``
+    If this option is set to ``on``, it will turn off COW of the file. It's
+    only valid on btrfs, no effect on other file systems.
+
+    Btrfs has low performance when hosting a VM image file, even more
+    when the guest on the VM also using btrfs as file system. Turning
+    off COW is a way to mitigate this bad performance. Generally there
+    are two ways to turn off COW on btrfs:
+
+    - Disable it by mounting with nodatacow, then all newly created files
+      will be NOCOW
+    - For an empty file, add the NOCOW file attribute. That's what this
+      option does.
+
+    Note: this option is only valid to new or empty files. If there is
+    an existing file which is COW and has data blocks already, it
+    couldn't be changed to NOCOW by setting ``nocow=on``. One can
+    issue ``lsattr filename`` to check if the NOCOW flag is set or not
+    (Capital 'C' is NOCOW flag).
+
+``Other``
+
+  QEMU also supports various other image file formats for
+  compatibility with older QEMU versions or other hypervisors,
+  including VMDK, VDI, VHD (vpc), VHDX, qcow1 and QED. For a full list
+  of supported formats see ``qemu-img --help``.  For a more detailed
+  description of these formats, see the QEMU block drivers reference
+  documentation.
+
+  The main purpose of the block drivers for these formats is image
+  conversion.  For running VMs, it is recommended to convert the disk
+  images to either raw or qcow2 in order to achieve good performance.
diff --git a/qemu-doc.texi b/qemu-doc.texi
index 2328e7ea476..f2e8d401b0f 100644
--- a/qemu-doc.texi
+++ b/qemu-doc.texi
@@ -632,7 +632,6 @@  encrypted disk images.
 * disk_images_quickstart::    Quick start for disk image creation
 * disk_images_snapshot_mode:: Snapshot mode
 * vm_snapshots::              VM snapshots
-* qemu_img_invocation::       qemu-img Invocation
 @end menu
 
 @node disk_images_quickstart
@@ -646,7 +645,9 @@  where @var{myimage.img} is the disk image filename and @var{mysize} is its
 size in kilobytes. You can add an @code{M} suffix to give the size in
 megabytes and a @code{G} suffix for gigabytes.
 
-See @ref{qemu_img_invocation} for more information.
+@c When this document is converted to rst we should make this into
+@c a proper linked reference to the qemu-img documentation again:
+See the qemu-img invocation documentation for more information.
 
 @node disk_images_snapshot_mode
 @subsection Snapshot mode
@@ -708,11 +709,6 @@  A few device drivers still have incomplete snapshot support so their
 state is not saved or restored properly (in particular USB).
 @end itemize
 
-@node qemu_img_invocation
-@subsection @code{qemu-img} Invocation
-
-@include qemu-img.texi
-
 @node pcsys_network
 @section Network emulation
 
diff --git a/qemu-img.texi b/qemu-img.texi
deleted file mode 100644
index b5156d63168..00000000000
--- a/qemu-img.texi
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,795 +0,0 @@ 
-@example
-@c man begin SYNOPSIS
-@command{qemu-img} [@var{standard} @var{options}] @var{command} [@var{command} @var{options}]
-@c man end
-@end example
-
-@c man begin DESCRIPTION
-qemu-img allows you to create, convert and modify images offline. It can handle
-all image formats supported by QEMU.
-
-@b{Warning:} Never use qemu-img to modify images in use by a running virtual
-machine or any other process; this may destroy the image. Also, be aware that
-querying an image that is being modified by another process may encounter
-inconsistent state.
-@c man end
-
-@c man begin OPTIONS
-
-Standard options:
-@table @option
-@item -h, --help
-Display this help and exit
-@item -V, --version
-Display version information and exit
-@item -T, --trace [[enable=]@var{pattern}][,events=@var{file}][,file=@var{file}]
-@findex --trace
-@include qemu-option-trace.texi
-@end table
-
-The following commands are supported:
-
-@include qemu-img-cmds.texi
-
-Command parameters:
-@table @var
-
-@item filename
-is a disk image filename
-
-@item fmt
-is the disk image format. It is guessed automatically in most cases. See below
-for a description of the supported disk formats.
-
-@item size
-is the disk image size in bytes. Optional suffixes @code{k} or @code{K}
-(kilobyte, 1024) @code{M} (megabyte, 1024k) and @code{G} (gigabyte, 1024M)
-and T (terabyte, 1024G) are supported.  @code{b} is ignored.
-
-@item output_filename
-is the destination disk image filename
-
-@item output_fmt
-is the destination format
-
-@item options
-is a comma separated list of format specific options in a
-name=value format. Use @code{-o ?} for an overview of the options supported
-by the used format or see the format descriptions below for details.
-
-@item snapshot_param
-is param used for internal snapshot, format is
-'snapshot.id=[ID],snapshot.name=[NAME]' or '[ID_OR_NAME]'
-
-@end table
-
-@table @option
-
-@item --object @var{objectdef}
-is a QEMU user creatable object definition. See the @code{qemu(1)} manual
-page for a description of the object properties. The most common object
-type is a @code{secret}, which is used to supply passwords and/or encryption
-keys.
-
-@item --image-opts
-Indicates that the source @var{filename} parameter is to be interpreted as a
-full option string, not a plain filename. This parameter is mutually
-exclusive with the @var{-f} parameter.
-
-@item --target-image-opts
-Indicates that the @var{output_filename} parameter(s) are to be interpreted as
-a full option string, not a plain filename. This parameter is mutually
-exclusive with the @var{-O} parameters. It is currently required to also use
-the @var{-n} parameter to skip image creation. This restriction may be relaxed
-in a future release.
-
-@item --force-share (-U)
-If specified, @code{qemu-img} will open the image in shared mode, allowing
-other QEMU processes to open it in write mode. For example, this can be used to
-get the image information (with 'info' subcommand) when the image is used by a
-running guest.  Note that this could produce inconsistent results because of
-concurrent metadata changes, etc. This option is only allowed when opening
-images in read-only mode.
-
-@item --backing-chain
-will enumerate information about backing files in a disk image chain. Refer
-below for further description.
-
-@item -c
-indicates that target image must be compressed (qcow format only)
-
-@item -h
-with or without a command shows help and lists the supported formats
-
-@item -p
-display progress bar (compare, convert and rebase commands only).
-If the @var{-p} option is not used for a command that supports it, the
-progress is reported when the process receives a @code{SIGUSR1} or
-@code{SIGINFO} signal.
-
-@item -q
-Quiet mode - do not print any output (except errors). There's no progress bar
-in case both @var{-q} and @var{-p} options are used.
-
-@item -S @var{size}
-indicates the consecutive number of bytes that must contain only zeros
-for qemu-img to create a sparse image during conversion. This value is rounded
-down to the nearest 512 bytes. You may use the common size suffixes like
-@code{k} for kilobytes.
-
-@item -t @var{cache}
-specifies the cache mode that should be used with the (destination) file. See
-the documentation of the emulator's @code{-drive cache=...} option for allowed
-values.
-
-@item -T @var{src_cache}
-specifies the cache mode that should be used with the source file(s). See
-the documentation of the emulator's @code{-drive cache=...} option for allowed
-values.
-
-@end table
-
-Parameters to snapshot subcommand:
-
-@table @option
-
-@item snapshot
-is the name of the snapshot to create, apply or delete
-@item -a
-applies a snapshot (revert disk to saved state)
-@item -c
-creates a snapshot
-@item -d
-deletes a snapshot
-@item -l
-lists all snapshots in the given image
-@end table
-
-Parameters to compare subcommand:
-
-@table @option
-
-@item -f
-First image format
-@item -F
-Second image format
-@item -s
-Strict mode - fail on different image size or sector allocation
-@end table
-
-Parameters to convert subcommand:
-
-@table @option
-
-@item -n
-Skip the creation of the target volume
-@item -m
-Number of parallel coroutines for the convert process
-@item -W
-Allow out-of-order writes to the destination. This option improves performance,
-but is only recommended for preallocated devices like host devices or other
-raw block devices.
-@item -C
-Try to use copy offloading to move data from source image to target. This may
-improve performance if the data is remote, such as with NFS or iSCSI backends,
-but will not automatically sparsify zero sectors, and may result in a fully
-allocated target image depending on the host support for getting allocation
-information.
-@item --salvage
-Try to ignore I/O errors when reading.  Unless in quiet mode (@code{-q}), errors
-will still be printed.  Areas that cannot be read from the source will be
-treated as containing only zeroes.
-@end table
-
-Parameters to dd subcommand:
-
-@table @option
-
-@item bs=@var{block_size}
-defines the block size
-@item count=@var{blocks}
-sets the number of input blocks to copy
-@item if=@var{input}
-sets the input file
-@item of=@var{output}
-sets the output file
-@item skip=@var{blocks}
-sets the number of input blocks to skip
-@end table
-
-Command description:
-
-@table @option
-
-@item amend [--object @var{objectdef}] [--image-opts] [-p] [-q] [-f @var{fmt}] [-t @var{cache}] -o @var{options} @var{filename}
-
-Amends the image format specific @var{options} for the image file
-@var{filename}. Not all file formats support this operation.
-
-@item bench [-c @var{count}] [-d @var{depth}] [-f @var{fmt}] [--flush-interval=@var{flush_interval}] [-n] [--no-drain] [-o @var{offset}] [--pattern=@var{pattern}] [-q] [-s @var{buffer_size}] [-S @var{step_size}] [-t @var{cache}] [-w] [-U] @var{filename}
-
-Run a simple sequential I/O benchmark on the specified image. If @code{-w} is
-specified, a write test is performed, otherwise a read test is performed.
-
-A total number of @var{count} I/O requests is performed, each @var{buffer_size}
-bytes in size, and with @var{depth} requests in parallel. The first request
-starts at the position given by @var{offset}, each following request increases
-the current position by @var{step_size}. If @var{step_size} is not given,
-@var{buffer_size} is used for its value.
-
-If @var{flush_interval} is specified for a write test, the request queue is
-drained and a flush is issued before new writes are made whenever the number of
-remaining requests is a multiple of @var{flush_interval}. If additionally
-@code{--no-drain} is specified, a flush is issued without draining the request
-queue first.
-
-If @code{-n} is specified, the native AIO backend is used if possible. On
-Linux, this option only works if @code{-t none} or @code{-t directsync} is
-specified as well.
-
-For write tests, by default a buffer filled with zeros is written. This can be
-overridden with a pattern byte specified by @var{pattern}.
-
-@item check [--object @var{objectdef}] [--image-opts] [-q] [-f @var{fmt}] [--output=@var{ofmt}] [-r [leaks | all]] [-T @var{src_cache}] [-U] @var{filename}
-
-Perform a consistency check on the disk image @var{filename}. The command can
-output in the format @var{ofmt} which is either @code{human} or @code{json}.
-The JSON output is an object of QAPI type @code{ImageCheck}.
-
-If @code{-r} is specified, qemu-img tries to repair any inconsistencies found
-during the check. @code{-r leaks} repairs only cluster leaks, whereas
-@code{-r all} fixes all kinds of errors, with a higher risk of choosing the
-wrong fix or hiding corruption that has already occurred.
-
-Only the formats @code{qcow2}, @code{qed} and @code{vdi} support
-consistency checks.
-
-In case the image does not have any inconsistencies, check exits with @code{0}.
-Other exit codes indicate the kind of inconsistency found or if another error
-occurred. The following table summarizes all exit codes of the check subcommand:
-
-@table @option
-
-@item 0
-Check completed, the image is (now) consistent
-@item 1
-Check not completed because of internal errors
-@item 2
-Check completed, image is corrupted
-@item 3
-Check completed, image has leaked clusters, but is not corrupted
-@item 63
-Checks are not supported by the image format
-
-@end table
-
-If @code{-r} is specified, exit codes representing the image state refer to the
-state after (the attempt at) repairing it. That is, a successful @code{-r all}
-will yield the exit code 0, independently of the image state before.
-
-@item commit [--object @var{objectdef}] [--image-opts] [-q] [-f @var{fmt}] [-t @var{cache}] [-b @var{base}] [-d] [-p] @var{filename}
-
-Commit the changes recorded in @var{filename} in its base image or backing file.
-If the backing file is smaller than the snapshot, then the backing file will be
-resized to be the same size as the snapshot.  If the snapshot is smaller than
-the backing file, the backing file will not be truncated.  If you want the
-backing file to match the size of the smaller snapshot, you can safely truncate
-it yourself once the commit operation successfully completes.
-
-The image @var{filename} is emptied after the operation has succeeded. If you do
-not need @var{filename} afterwards and intend to drop it, you may skip emptying
-@var{filename} by specifying the @code{-d} flag.
-
-If the backing chain of the given image file @var{filename} has more than one
-layer, the backing file into which the changes will be committed may be
-specified as @var{base} (which has to be part of @var{filename}'s backing
-chain). If @var{base} is not specified, the immediate backing file of the top
-image (which is @var{filename}) will be used. Note that after a commit operation
-all images between @var{base} and the top image will be invalid and may return
-garbage data when read. For this reason, @code{-b} implies @code{-d} (so that
-the top image stays valid).
-
-@item compare [--object @var{objectdef}] [--image-opts] [-f @var{fmt}] [-F @var{fmt}] [-T @var{src_cache}] [-p] [-q] [-s] [-U] @var{filename1} @var{filename2}
-
-Check if two images have the same content. You can compare images with
-different format or settings.
-
-The format is probed unless you specify it by @var{-f} (used for
-@var{filename1}) and/or @var{-F} (used for @var{filename2}) option.
-
-By default, images with different size are considered identical if the larger
-image contains only unallocated and/or zeroed sectors in the area after the end
-of the other image. In addition, if any sector is not allocated in one image
-and contains only zero bytes in the second one, it is evaluated as equal. You
-can use Strict mode by specifying the @var{-s} option. When compare runs in
-Strict mode, it fails in case image size differs or a sector is allocated in
-one image and is not allocated in the second one.
-
-By default, compare prints out a result message. This message displays
-information that both images are same or the position of the first different
-byte. In addition, result message can report different image size in case
-Strict mode is used.
-
-Compare exits with @code{0} in case the images are equal and with @code{1}
-in case the images differ. Other exit codes mean an error occurred during
-execution and standard error output should contain an error message.
-The following table sumarizes all exit codes of the compare subcommand:
-
-@table @option
-
-@item 0
-Images are identical
-@item 1
-Images differ
-@item 2
-Error on opening an image
-@item 3
-Error on checking a sector allocation
-@item 4
-Error on reading data
-
-@end table
-
-@item convert [--object @var{objectdef}] [--image-opts] [--target-image-opts] [-U] [-C] [-c] [-p] [-q] [-n] [-f @var{fmt}] [-t @var{cache}] [-T @var{src_cache}] [-O @var{output_fmt}] [-B @var{backing_file}] [-o @var{options}] [-l @var{snapshot_param}] [-S @var{sparse_size}] [-m @var{num_coroutines}] [-W] @var{filename} [@var{filename2} [...]] @var{output_filename}
-
-Convert the disk image @var{filename} or a snapshot @var{snapshot_param}
-to disk image @var{output_filename} using format @var{output_fmt}. It can be optionally compressed (@code{-c}
-option) or use any format specific options like encryption (@code{-o} option).
-
-Only the formats @code{qcow} and @code{qcow2} support compression. The
-compression is read-only. It means that if a compressed sector is
-rewritten, then it is rewritten as uncompressed data.
-
-Image conversion is also useful to get smaller image when using a
-growable format such as @code{qcow}: the empty sectors are detected and
-suppressed from the destination image.
-
-@var{sparse_size} indicates the consecutive number of bytes (defaults to 4k)
-that must contain only zeros for qemu-img to create a sparse image during
-conversion. If @var{sparse_size} is 0, the source will not be scanned for
-unallocated or zero sectors, and the destination image will always be
-fully allocated.
-
-You can use the @var{backing_file} option to force the output image to be
-created as a copy on write image of the specified base image; the
-@var{backing_file} should have the same content as the input's base image,
-however the path, image format, etc may differ.
-
-If a relative path name is given, the backing file is looked up relative to
-the directory containing @var{output_filename}.
-
-If the @code{-n} option is specified, the target volume creation will be
-skipped. This is useful for formats such as @code{rbd} if the target
-volume has already been created with site specific options that cannot
-be supplied through qemu-img.
-
-Out of order writes can be enabled with @code{-W} to improve performance.
-This is only recommended for preallocated devices like host devices or other
-raw block devices. Out of order write does not work in combination with
-creating compressed images.
-
-@var{num_coroutines} specifies how many coroutines work in parallel during
-the convert process (defaults to 8).
-
-@item create [--object @var{objectdef}] [-q] [-f @var{fmt}] [-b @var{backing_file}] [-F @var{backing_fmt}] [-u] [-o @var{options}] @var{filename} [@var{size}]
-
-Create the new disk image @var{filename} of size @var{size} and format
-@var{fmt}. Depending on the file format, you can add one or more @var{options}
-that enable additional features of this format.
-
-If the option @var{backing_file} is specified, then the image will record
-only the differences from @var{backing_file}. No size needs to be specified in
-this case. @var{backing_file} will never be modified unless you use the
-@code{commit} monitor command (or qemu-img commit).
-
-If a relative path name is given, the backing file is looked up relative to
-the directory containing @var{filename}.
-
-Note that a given backing file will be opened to check that it is valid. Use
-the @code{-u} option to enable unsafe backing file mode, which means that the
-image will be created even if the associated backing file cannot be opened. A
-matching backing file must be created or additional options be used to make the
-backing file specification valid when you want to use an image created this
-way.
-
-The size can also be specified using the @var{size} option with @code{-o},
-it doesn't need to be specified separately in this case.
-
-@item dd [--image-opts] [-U] [-f @var{fmt}] [-O @var{output_fmt}] [bs=@var{block_size}] [count=@var{blocks}] [skip=@var{blocks}] if=@var{input} of=@var{output}
-
-Dd copies from @var{input} file to @var{output} file converting it from
-@var{fmt} format to @var{output_fmt} format.
-
-The data is by default read and written using blocks of 512 bytes but can be
-modified by specifying @var{block_size}. If count=@var{blocks} is specified
-dd will stop reading input after reading @var{blocks} input blocks.
-
-The size syntax is similar to dd(1)'s size syntax.
-
-@item info [--object @var{objectdef}] [--image-opts] [-f @var{fmt}] [--output=@var{ofmt}] [--backing-chain] [-U] @var{filename}
-
-Give information about the disk image @var{filename}. Use it in
-particular to know the size reserved on disk which can be different
-from the displayed size. If VM snapshots are stored in the disk image,
-they are displayed too.
-
-If a disk image has a backing file chain, information about each disk image in
-the chain can be recursively enumerated by using the option @code{--backing-chain}.
-
-For instance, if you have an image chain like:
-
-@example
-base.qcow2 <- snap1.qcow2 <- snap2.qcow2
-@end example
-
-To enumerate information about each disk image in the above chain, starting from top to base, do:
-
-@example
-qemu-img info --backing-chain snap2.qcow2
-@end example
-
-The command can output in the format @var{ofmt} which is either @code{human} or
-@code{json}.  The JSON output is an object of QAPI type @code{ImageInfo}; with
-@code{--backing-chain}, it is an array of @code{ImageInfo} objects.
-
-@code{--output=human} reports the following information (for every image in the
-chain):
-@table @var
-@item image
-The image file name
-
-@item file format
-The image format
-
-@item virtual size
-The size of the guest disk
-
-@item disk size
-How much space the image file occupies on the host file system (may be shown as
-0 if this information is unavailable, e.g. because there is no file system)
-
-@item cluster_size
-Cluster size of the image format, if applicable
-
-@item encrypted
-Whether the image is encrypted (only present if so)
-
-@item cleanly shut down
-This is shown as @code{no} if the image is dirty and will have to be
-auto-repaired the next time it is opened in qemu.
-
-@item backing file
-The backing file name, if present
-
-@item backing file format
-The format of the backing file, if the image enforces it
-
-@item Snapshot list
-A list of all internal snapshots
-
-@item Format specific information
-Further information whose structure depends on the image format.  This section
-is a textual representation of the respective @code{ImageInfoSpecific*} QAPI
-object (e.g. @code{ImageInfoSpecificQCow2} for qcow2 images).
-@end table
-
-@item map [--object @var{objectdef}] [--image-opts] [-f @var{fmt}] [--output=@var{ofmt}] [-U] @var{filename}
-
-Dump the metadata of image @var{filename} and its backing file chain.
-In particular, this commands dumps the allocation state of every sector
-of @var{filename}, together with the topmost file that allocates it in
-the backing file chain.
-
-Two option formats are possible.  The default format (@code{human})
-only dumps known-nonzero areas of the file.  Known-zero parts of the
-file are omitted altogether, and likewise for parts that are not allocated
-throughout the chain.  @command{qemu-img} output will identify a file
-from where the data can be read, and the offset in the file.  Each line
-will include four fields, the first three of which are hexadecimal
-numbers.  For example the first line of:
-@example
-Offset          Length          Mapped to       File
-0               0x20000         0x50000         /tmp/overlay.qcow2
-0x100000        0x10000         0x95380000      /tmp/backing.qcow2
-@end example
-@noindent
-means that 0x20000 (131072) bytes starting at offset 0 in the image are
-available in /tmp/overlay.qcow2 (opened in @code{raw} format) starting
-at offset 0x50000 (327680).  Data that is compressed, encrypted, or
-otherwise not available in raw format will cause an error if @code{human}
-format is in use.  Note that file names can include newlines, thus it is
-not safe to parse this output format in scripts.
-
-The alternative format @code{json} will return an array of dictionaries
-in JSON format.  It will include similar information in
-the @code{start}, @code{length}, @code{offset} fields;
-it will also include other more specific information:
-@itemize @minus
-@item
-whether the sectors contain actual data or not (boolean field @code{data};
-if false, the sectors are either unallocated or stored as optimized
-all-zero clusters);
-
-@item
-whether the data is known to read as zero (boolean field @code{zero});
-
-@item
-in order to make the output shorter, the target file is expressed as
-a @code{depth}; for example, a depth of 2 refers to the backing file
-of the backing file of @var{filename}.
-@end itemize
-
-In JSON format, the @code{offset} field is optional; it is absent in
-cases where @code{human} format would omit the entry or exit with an error.
-If @code{data} is false and the @code{offset} field is present, the
-corresponding sectors in the file are not yet in use, but they are
-preallocated.
-
-For more information, consult @file{include/block/block.h} in QEMU's
-source code.
-
-@item measure [--output=@var{ofmt}] [-O @var{output_fmt}] [-o @var{options}] [--size @var{N} | [--object @var{objectdef}] [--image-opts] [-f @var{fmt}] [-l @var{snapshot_param}] @var{filename}]
-
-Calculate the file size required for a new image.  This information can be used
-to size logical volumes or SAN LUNs appropriately for the image that will be
-placed in them.  The values reported are guaranteed to be large enough to fit
-the image.  The command can output in the format @var{ofmt} which is either
-@code{human} or @code{json}.  The JSON output is an object of QAPI type
-@code{BlockMeasureInfo}.
-
-If the size @var{N} is given then act as if creating a new empty image file
-using @command{qemu-img create}.  If @var{filename} is given then act as if
-converting an existing image file using @command{qemu-img convert}.  The format
-of the new file is given by @var{output_fmt} while the format of an existing
-file is given by @var{fmt}.
-
-A snapshot in an existing image can be specified using @var{snapshot_param}.
-
-The following fields are reported:
-@example
-required size: 524288
-fully allocated size: 1074069504
-@end example
-
-The @code{required size} is the file size of the new image.  It may be smaller
-than the virtual disk size if the image format supports compact representation.
-
-The @code{fully allocated size} is the file size of the new image once data has
-been written to all sectors.  This is the maximum size that the image file can
-occupy with the exception of internal snapshots, dirty bitmaps, vmstate data,
-and other advanced image format features.
-
-@item snapshot [--object @var{objectdef}] [--image-opts] [-U] [-q] [-l | -a @var{snapshot} | -c @var{snapshot} | -d @var{snapshot}] @var{filename}
-
-List, apply, create or delete snapshots in image @var{filename}.
-
-@item rebase [--object @var{objectdef}] [--image-opts] [-U] [-q] [-f @var{fmt}] [-t @var{cache}] [-T @var{src_cache}] [-p] [-u] -b @var{backing_file} [-F @var{backing_fmt}] @var{filename}
-
-Changes the backing file of an image. Only the formats @code{qcow2} and
-@code{qed} support changing the backing file.
-
-The backing file is changed to @var{backing_file} and (if the image format of
-@var{filename} supports this) the backing file format is changed to
-@var{backing_fmt}. If @var{backing_file} is specified as ``'' (the empty
-string), then the image is rebased onto no backing file (i.e. it will exist
-independently of any backing file).
-
-If a relative path name is given, the backing file is looked up relative to
-the directory containing @var{filename}.
-
-@var{cache} specifies the cache mode to be used for @var{filename}, whereas
-@var{src_cache} specifies the cache mode for reading backing files.
-
-There are two different modes in which @code{rebase} can operate:
-@table @option
-@item Safe mode
-This is the default mode and performs a real rebase operation. The new backing
-file may differ from the old one and qemu-img rebase will take care of keeping
-the guest-visible content of @var{filename} unchanged.
-
-In order to achieve this, any clusters that differ between @var{backing_file}
-and the old backing file of @var{filename} are merged into @var{filename}
-before actually changing the backing file.
-
-Note that the safe mode is an expensive operation, comparable to converting
-an image. It only works if the old backing file still exists.
-
-@item Unsafe mode
-qemu-img uses the unsafe mode if @code{-u} is specified. In this mode, only the
-backing file name and format of @var{filename} is changed without any checks
-on the file contents. The user must take care of specifying the correct new
-backing file, or the guest-visible content of the image will be corrupted.
-
-This mode is useful for renaming or moving the backing file to somewhere else.
-It can be used without an accessible old backing file, i.e. you can use it to
-fix an image whose backing file has already been moved/renamed.
-@end table
-
-You can use @code{rebase} to perform a ``diff'' operation on two
-disk images.  This can be useful when you have copied or cloned
-a guest, and you want to get back to a thin image on top of a
-template or base image.
-
-Say that @code{base.img} has been cloned as @code{modified.img} by
-copying it, and that the @code{modified.img} guest has run so there
-are now some changes compared to @code{base.img}.  To construct a thin
-image called @code{diff.qcow2} that contains just the differences, do:
-
-@example
-qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b modified.img diff.qcow2
-qemu-img rebase -b base.img diff.qcow2
-@end example
-
-At this point, @code{modified.img} can be discarded, since
-@code{base.img + diff.qcow2} contains the same information.
-
-@item resize [--object @var{objectdef}] [--image-opts] [-f @var{fmt}] [--preallocation=@var{prealloc}] [-q] [--shrink] @var{filename} [+ | -]@var{size}
-
-Change the disk image as if it had been created with @var{size}.
-
-Before using this command to shrink a disk image, you MUST use file system and
-partitioning tools inside the VM to reduce allocated file systems and partition
-sizes accordingly.  Failure to do so will result in data loss!
-
-When shrinking images, the @code{--shrink} option must be given. This informs
-qemu-img that the user acknowledges all loss of data beyond the truncated
-image's end.
-
-After using this command to grow a disk image, you must use file system and
-partitioning tools inside the VM to actually begin using the new space on the
-device.
-
-When growing an image, the @code{--preallocation} option may be used to specify
-how the additional image area should be allocated on the host.  See the format
-description in the @code{NOTES} section which values are allowed.  Using this
-option may result in slightly more data being allocated than necessary.
-
-@end table
-@c man end
-
-@ignore
-@c man begin NOTES
-Supported image file formats:
-
-@table @option
-@item raw
-
-Raw disk image format (default). This format has the advantage of
-being simple and easily exportable to all other emulators. If your
-file system supports @emph{holes} (for example in ext2 or ext3 on
-Linux or NTFS on Windows), then only the written sectors will reserve
-space. Use @code{qemu-img info} to know the real size used by the
-image or @code{ls -ls} on Unix/Linux.
-
-Supported options:
-@table @code
-@item preallocation
-Preallocation mode (allowed values: @code{off}, @code{falloc}, @code{full}).
-@code{falloc} mode preallocates space for image by calling posix_fallocate().
-@code{full} mode preallocates space for image by writing data to underlying
-storage.  This data may or may not be zero, depending on the storage location.
-@end table
-
-@item qcow2
-QEMU image format, the most versatile format. Use it to have smaller
-images (useful if your filesystem does not supports holes, for example
-on Windows), optional AES encryption, zlib based compression and
-support of multiple VM snapshots.
-
-Supported options:
-@table @code
-@item compat
-Determines the qcow2 version to use. @code{compat=0.10} uses the
-traditional image format that can be read by any QEMU since 0.10.
-@code{compat=1.1} enables image format extensions that only QEMU 1.1 and
-newer understand (this is the default). Amongst others, this includes zero
-clusters, which allow efficient copy-on-read for sparse images.
-
-@item backing_file
-File name of a base image (see @option{create} subcommand)
-@item backing_fmt
-Image format of the base image
-@item encryption
-If this option is set to @code{on}, the image is encrypted with 128-bit AES-CBC.
-
-The use of encryption in qcow and qcow2 images is considered to be flawed by
-modern cryptography standards, suffering from a number of design problems:
-
-@itemize @minus
-@item
-The AES-CBC cipher is used with predictable initialization vectors based
-on the sector number. This makes it vulnerable to chosen plaintext attacks
-which can reveal the existence of encrypted data.
-@item
-The user passphrase is directly used as the encryption key. A poorly
-chosen or short passphrase will compromise the security of the encryption.
-@item
-In the event of the passphrase being compromised there is no way to
-change the passphrase to protect data in any qcow images. The files must
-be cloned, using a different encryption passphrase in the new file. The
-original file must then be securely erased using a program like shred,
-though even this is ineffective with many modern storage technologies.
-@item
-Initialization vectors used to encrypt sectors are based on the
-guest virtual sector number, instead of the host physical sector. When
-a disk image has multiple internal snapshots this means that data in
-multiple physical sectors is encrypted with the same initialization
-vector. With the CBC mode, this opens the possibility of watermarking
-attacks if the attack can collect multiple sectors encrypted with the
-same IV and some predictable data. Having multiple qcow2 images with
-the same passphrase also exposes this weakness since the passphrase
-is directly used as the key.
-@end itemize
-
-Use of qcow / qcow2 encryption is thus strongly discouraged. Users are
-recommended to use an alternative encryption technology such as the
-Linux dm-crypt / LUKS system.
-
-@item cluster_size
-Changes the qcow2 cluster size (must be between 512 and 2M). Smaller cluster
-sizes can improve the image file size whereas larger cluster sizes generally
-provide better performance.
-
-@item preallocation
-Preallocation mode (allowed values: @code{off}, @code{metadata}, @code{falloc},
-@code{full}). An image with preallocated metadata is initially larger but can
-improve performance when the image needs to grow. @code{falloc} and @code{full}
-preallocations are like the same options of @code{raw} format, but sets up
-metadata also.
-
-@item lazy_refcounts
-If this option is set to @code{on}, reference count updates are postponed with
-the goal of avoiding metadata I/O and improving performance. This is
-particularly interesting with @option{cache=writethrough} which doesn't batch
-metadata updates. The tradeoff is that after a host crash, the reference count
-tables must be rebuilt, i.e. on the next open an (automatic) @code{qemu-img
-check -r all} is required, which may take some time.
-
-This option can only be enabled if @code{compat=1.1} is specified.
-
-@item nocow
-If this option is set to @code{on}, it will turn off COW of the file. It's only
-valid on btrfs, no effect on other file systems.
-
-Btrfs has low performance when hosting a VM image file, even more when the guest
-on the VM also using btrfs as file system. Turning off COW is a way to mitigate
-this bad performance. Generally there are two ways to turn off COW on btrfs:
-a) Disable it by mounting with nodatacow, then all newly created files will be
-NOCOW. b) For an empty file, add the NOCOW file attribute. That's what this option
-does.
-
-Note: this option is only valid to new or empty files. If there is an existing
-file which is COW and has data blocks already, it couldn't be changed to NOCOW
-by setting @code{nocow=on}. One can issue @code{lsattr filename} to check if
-the NOCOW flag is set or not (Capital 'C' is NOCOW flag).
-
-@end table
-
-@item Other
-QEMU also supports various other image file formats for compatibility with
-older QEMU versions or other hypervisors, including VMDK, VDI, VHD (vpc), VHDX,
-qcow1 and QED. For a full list of supported formats see @code{qemu-img --help}.
-For a more detailed description of these formats, see the QEMU Emulation User
-Documentation.
-
-The main purpose of the block drivers for these formats is image conversion.
-For running VMs, it is recommended to convert the disk images to either raw or
-qcow2 in order to achieve good performance.
-@end table
-
-
-@c man end
-
-@setfilename qemu-img
-@settitle QEMU disk image utility
-
-@c man begin SEEALSO
-The HTML documentation of QEMU for more precise information and Linux
-user mode emulator invocation.
-@c man end
-
-@c man begin AUTHOR
-Fabrice Bellard
-@c man end
-
-@end ignore