Qcow

qcow (QEMU Copy on Write) is a disk image format used with the QEMU hosted virtual machine monitor. It can't be mounted directly, but needs a separate utility to read it.

File identification
The starting bytes are (hex)  (ASCII  ).

Links

 * Wikipedia article
 * Forensics Wiki article
 * qcow image format documentation
 * qcow2 image format documentation
 * Spec from libqcow project
 * libqcow