qemu-img
QEMU project
Open source
Cold - full outage for the whole copy
Agentless
Smb estates
Workload V2V P2V
What it is good at
Converts between VMDK, VHD/VHDX, QCOW2, RAW and VDI. The lowest common denominator when nothing else will read the disk.
Where it falls down
Disk format conversion only - it does nothing about guest drivers, boot config or VM metadata.
Capabilities
- API / CLI automation
Cost and licensing
- Cost category
- Open source — Free and open source; paid support optional.
- Indicative price
- No licence cost (GPL)
- Licence model
- GPLv2 open source, part of QEMU.
- How to license it
- Install the qemu-utils / qemu-img package. Free.
- Lifecycle
- Current
- Vendor page
- https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/tools/qemu-img.html
Pricing and licensing last reviewed 2026-09-18. Indicative only - confirm with the vendor.
Supported sources
- Any platform
Supported targets
- Proxmox VE
- Plain KVM / libvirt (RHEL, Ubuntu, SUSE)
- XCP-ng + Xen Orchestra
- OpenStack (Nova / KVM)
- Nutanix AHV (Prism)
- Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager / Oracle VM
- Microsoft Hyper-V (Windows Server)
- VMware vSphere / ESXi (vCenter)