QEMU-IO(1)

🎀 QEMU-IO(1) 🎀 General Commands Manual

✨ NAME ✨

okay so qemu-io is the qemu-io disk exerciser 💖 it's literally a command line tool for putting the QEMU I/O path through its paces 🔥

💅 SYNOPSIS 💅

qemu-io [-h] [-V] [-rsnm] [-c cmd] ... [file]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

bestie, qemu-io is a command line utility that lets you exercise the QEMU I/O path. it's giving stress test energy and it is SO iconic ✨

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

• -c, --cmd <cmd> — the command to execute 🍓
• -r, --read-only — export read-only 🔒
• -s, --snapshot — use a snapshot file 📸
• -n, --nocache — disable the host cache 🙈
• -g, --growable — allow the file to grow (this only applies to protocols) 🌱
• -m, --misalign — misalign allocations for O_DIRECT ⚠️ the way that this one is so specific, periodt 💀
• -k, --native-aio — use the kernel AIO implementation (Linux only!) 🐧
• -h, --help — display help and exit 💜
• -V, --version — output version information and exit 🧚

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

qemu-img(1), qemu-nbd(8) — lowkey the sibling tools you need to know about 👑

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

okay so the QEMU project is the main crew behind this one 💖

this manual page was written by Asias He <asias.hejun@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (and it may be used by others) ✨ you're totally allowed to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License 📜 (see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/legalcode) 🦋

bestie, that's the whole tea ☕ sourced from QEMU-IO(1) with a December 18, 2011 glow-up 🎀 stay iconic and keep those I/O paths slaying 💅🌸