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Joachim Metz edited this page Jul 15, 2022 · 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
version 3

Supported QCOW format features:

zlib (DEFLATE) compression
AES-CBC 128-bit encryption
backing file (differential image)

Unsupported QCOW format features:

LUKS encryption
data file
in-image snapshots

Work in progress:

Thread-safety in file API functions

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