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Libqcow

The libqcow package contains a library and applications to read the QEMU Copy-On-Write (QCOW) image format.

Tools

The libqcow package contains the following tools:

  • qcowinfo, which shows the information about QCOW files.
  • qcowmount, which FUSE mounts QCOW image files.

Examples

FUSE mounting a QCOW image (libqcow 20111009 or later)

qcowmount image.qcow mount_point

History

Libqcow was created by Joachim Metz in 2010.

Also See

QEMU Copy-On-Write (QCOW) image format