incus.image.generate-metadata - Man Page

incus image generate-metadata  [flags]

Description:
 Generate a metadata tarball

This command produces an incus.tar.xz tarball for use during import with an existing QCOW2 or squashfs disk image.

This command will prompt for all of the metadata tarball fields:
  - Operating system name
  - Release
  - Variant
  - Architecture
  - Description

--debug[=false] Show all debug messages

--explain[=false] If the command is valid, explain its parsed arguments instead of running it

--force-local[=false] Force using the local unix socket

-h, --help[=false] Print help

--project="" Override the source project``

-q, --quiet[=false] Don't show progress information

--sub-commands[=false] Use with help or --help to view sub-commands

-v, --verbose[=false] Show all information messages

--version[=false] Print version number

incus-image(1)

9-Apr-2026 Auto generated by spf13/cobra