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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  inter-
     active  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 giga-
	    bytes (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 bxim-
	    age uses the  command  line parameters as defaults for the	interac-
	    tive  mode.  If this option is given and one of the required parame-
	    ters is missing, bximage will fall back to interactive mode.

	    This example creates a harddisk image in flat mode and  sector  size
	    512:

	    bximage -q -func=create -hd=100M hd100meg.img

     --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 (con-
     vert/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:
       https://bochs.sourceforge.io/getcurrent.html

SEE ALSO
     bochs(1), bochsrc(5), bochs-dlx(1)

     The Bochs IA-32 Emulator site on the World Wide Web:
       https://bochs.sourceforge.io

     Online Bochs Documentation
	  https://bochs.sourceforge.io/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 con-
     verting 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
     https://bochs.sourceforge.io,  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.

bximage 			   26 Mar 2024			      bximage(1)

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