qcowinfo(1)

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

qcowinfo [-hvV] source

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: shows this help
-v: verbose output to stderr
-V: print version

ENVIRONMENT

None

FILES

None

EXAMPLES

# qcowinfo file.qcow
qcowinfo 20201112
QEMU Copy-On-Write (QCOW) image information:
        Format		: 2
...

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

Please report bugs of any kind to <[email protected]> or on the project website: https://github.com/libyal/libqcow/

AUTHOR

These man pages were written by Joachim Metz.