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Library and tools to access the QEMU Copy-On-Write (QCOW) image format

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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 (as of version 20141201)

Supported QCOW format features:
* compression
* encryption

Unsupported QCOW format features:
* backing file-based snapshots
* in-image snapshots

Work in progress:
* Dokan library support
* Python 3 support
* Thread-safety in file API functions

For more information see:
* Project documentation: https://github.com/libyal/libqcow/wiki/Home
* How to build from source: https://github.com/libyal/libqcow/wiki/Building

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