Create and manipulate Quick Emulator Virtual HDD images. More information: https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/master/tools/qemu-img.html.
qemu-img create {{path/to/image_file.img}} {{gigabytes}}G
qemu-img info {{path/to/image_file.img}}
qemu-img resize {{path/to/image_file.img}} {{gigabytes}}G
qemu-img map {{path/to/image_file.img}}
.vmdk disk image to a KVM .qcow2 disk image:qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O qcow2 {{path/to/image_file.vmdk}} {{path/to/image_file.qcow2}}
.qcow2 disk image:qemu-img snapshot -c {{snapshot_tag_name}} {{path/to/image_file.qcow2}}
.qcow2 disk image:qemu-img snapshot -a {{snapshot_tag_name}} {{path/to/image_file.qcow2}}