Metadata-Version: 2.4
Name: libqcow-python
Version: 20260703
Summary: Python bindings for libqcow
Maintainer-email: Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>
License-Expression: LGPL-3.0-or-later
Project-URL: Documentation, https://github.com/libyal/libqcow/wiki/Home
Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/libyal/libqcow
Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/libyal/libqcow
Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Requires-Python: >=3.10
Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
License-File: COPYING
License-File: COPYING.LESSER
Dynamic: license-file

libqcow is a library to access the QEMU Copy-On-Write (QCOW) image file format.

Project information:

* Status: alpha
* Licence: LGPL-3.0-or-later

Read-only supported QCOW formats:

* version 1
* version 2
* version 3

Supported QCOW format features:

* zlib (DEFLATE) compression
* AES-CBC 128-bit encryption
* backing file (differential image)

Unsupported QCOW format features:

* LUKS encryption
* data file
* in-image snapshots

Work in progress:

* 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

