NAME

       bximage - Interactive Disk Image Creation, Conversion, Resize and Redolog Commit Tool for Bochs

SYNOPSIS

       bximage [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   completely   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.

       -func=...
              Operation to perform (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 interactive 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 General 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 ALSO

       bochs(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.