qcowinfo LOCAL qcowinfo

# [NAME](#NAME)

`qcowinfo` — determines information about a QEMU Copy-On-Write (QCOW) image file

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

`qcowinfo` \[`-hvV`] `source`

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

`qcowinfo` is a utility to determine information about a QEMU Copy-On-Write (QCOW) image file

`qcowinfo` is part of the `libqcow` package. `libqcow` is a library to access the QEMU Copy-On-Write (QCOW) image format

`source` is the source file.

The options are as follows:

[`-h`](#h)

shows this help

[`-v`](#v)

verbose output to stderr

[`-V`](#V)

print version

# [ENVIRONMENT](#ENVIRONMENT)

None

# [FILES](#FILES)

None

# [EXAMPLES](#EXAMPLES)

```
# qcowinfo file.qcow
qcowinfo 20101231

QEMU Copy-On-Write (QCOW) image information:
        Format:		2
```

`...`

# [DIAGNOSTICS](#DIAGNOSTICS)

Errors, verbose and debug output are printed to stderr when verbose output -v is enabled. Verbose and debug output are only printed when enabled at compilation.

# [BUGS](#BUGS)

Please report bugs of any kind to <joachim.metz@gmail.com> or on the project website: https://github.com/libyal/libqcow/

# [AUTHOR](#AUTHOR)

These man pages were written by Joachim Metz.

# [COPYRIGHT](#COPYRIGHT)

Copyright (C) 2010-2018, Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>.

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

January 19, 2014 libqcow

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Document: qcowinfo(1) from longhorn-libqcow 1.0.0-r4 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/longhorn/libqcow