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Joachim Metz edited this page Nov 29, 2014 · 11 revisions

libqcow is a library to access the QEMU Copy-On-Write (QCOW) image format.

Project information:

Status: alpha
Licence: LGPLv3+

Read-only supported QCOW formats:

version 1
version 2

Supported QCOW format features:

compression
encryption

QCOW format features not supported at the moment:

backing file-based snapshots
in-image snapshots

Work in progress:

Python bindings
Dokan library support
Thread-safety in file API functions

Planned:

QCOW version 3 support
Python 3 support

For more information see: