{
 "id": "qcow",
 "name": "Qcow",
 "category": "image",
 "identifiers": {
  "extensions": [
   "qcow",
   "qcow2",
   "img",
   "qcow3"
  ],
  "mime": [
   "application/x-qemu-disk"
  ],
  "wikidata": [
   "Q1052000"
  ],
  "magic": [
   {
    "offset": 0,
    "hex": "514649fb00000001"
   }
  ]
 },
 "status": "writable",
 "summary": "virtual hard drive format introduced by QEMU",
 "tools": [
  {
   "name": "Aaru Data Preservation Suite",
   "url": "https://www.aaru.app/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU General Public License, version 3.0",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "PhotoRec",
   "url": "http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU General Public License",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Q215051",
   "url": "https://7-zip.org",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU Lesser General Public License",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "QEMU",
   "url": "https://www.qemu.org/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true,
   "license": "GNU General Public License, version 2.0",
   "open_source": true
  }
 ],
 "projects": [
  {
   "name": "File Formats Wiki",
   "url": "http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Qcow",
   "kind": "wiki"
  },
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q1052000",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1052000",
   "kind": "wiki"
  }
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "sources": [
   "ffw",
   "wikidata"
  ]
 },
 "updated": "2026-10-24",
 "aliases": [],
 "structure": [],
 "parsers": [],
 "conversions": [],
 "samples": [],
 "claims": [],
 "verification": []
}