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6 bximage - Interactive Disk Image Creation, Conversion, Resize and
7 Redolog Commit Tool for Bochs
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10 bximage [options] [filename1] [filename2]
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13 Bximage is an easy to use console based tool for creating, converting
14 and resizing disk images, particularly for use with Bochs. It also
15 supports committing redolog files to their base images. It is com‐
16 pletely interactive if no command line arguments are used. It can
17 be switched to a non-interactive mode if all required parameters are
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21 When you run bximage without one of the following options, it will ap‐
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26 Operation to perform (create, convert, resize, commit, info)
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29 Create: floppy image with size code (e.g. 360k, 720k, 1.44M)
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32 Create/resize: hard disk image with size in megabytes (M) or gi‐
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36 Create/convert: hard disk image mode - see the bochsrc sample
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39 -b Convert/resize: create a backup of the source image. Commit:
40 create backups of base image and redolog file.
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42 -q Quiet mode (don't prompt for user input). Without this option
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48 --help Print a summary of the command line options for bximage and
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51 The filename1 parameter specifies the name of the new image (create),
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54 The filename2 parameter specifies the name of the destination image
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58 This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser Gen‐
59 eral Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
60 See the LICENSE and COPYING files located in /usr/share/doc/bochs/ for
61 details on the license and the lack of warranty.
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64 The latest version of this program can be found at:
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68 bochs(1), bochsrc(5), bochs-dlx(1)
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70 The Bochs IA-32 Emulator site on the World Wide Web:
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77 The original version of bximage was written by Bryce Denney, based on
78 several similar tools from the bochs-developers list. The support for
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82 Please report all bugs to the bug tracker on our web site. Just go
83 to http://bochs.sourceforge.net, and click "Bug Reports" on the sidebar
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86 Provide a detailed description of the bug, the version of the program
87 you are running, the operating system you are running the program on
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