Qcow

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	* [http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/qcow-image-format.html qcow2 image format documentation]		* [http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/qcow-image-format.html qcow2 image format documentation]
	* [https://googledrive.com/host/0B3fBvzttpiiSSzlxcHFxRC0zYTA/QEMU%20Copy-On-Write%20file%20format.pdf Spec from libqcow project]		* [https://googledrive.com/host/0B3fBvzttpiiSSzlxcHFxRC0zYTA/QEMU%20Copy-On-Write%20file%20format.pdf Spec from libqcow project]
−	* [https://code.google.com/p/libqcow/ libqcow]	+	* [https://github.com/libyal/libqcow/wiki libqcow]

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File Format
Name	Qcow
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Disk Image Formats Qcow
Extension(s)	.qcow, .qcow2

qcow (QEMU Copy on Write) is a disk image format used with the QEMU hosted virtual machine monitor. It can't be mounted directly, but needs a separate utility to read it.

File identification

The starting bytes are (hex) 51 46 49 FB (ASCII QFI.).

Links

• Wikipedia article
• Forensics Wiki article
• qcow image format documentation
• qcow2 image format documentation
• Spec from libqcow project
• libqcow