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.