diff --git a/freedesktop.org.xml.in b/freedesktop.org.xml.in
index 5d45e7b37ecaa23b86a71d6098c21aa5d36b408c..83570fa0c2ff8dc3d3bde3cab25f876b949f2efd 100644
--- a/freedesktop.org.xml.in
+++ b/freedesktop.org.xml.in
@@ -7292,4 +7292,17 @@ command to generate the output files.
     </magic>
   </mime-type>
 
+  <mime-type type="application/x-qemu-disk">
+    <comment>QEMU QCOW disk image</comment>
+    <acronym>QCOW</acronym>
+    <expanded-acronym>QEMU Copy On Write</expanded-acronym>
+    <glob pattern="*.qcow2"/>
+    <glob pattern="*.qcow"/>
+    <magic>
+      <match type="string" value="QFI" offset="0">
+        <match value="0xfb" type="byte" offset="3"/>
+      </match>
+    </magic>
+  </mime-type>
+
 </mime-info>
diff --git a/tests/disk.qcow2 b/tests/disk.qcow2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ef892e19a080ee15805fe5984f578d2043c9ff98
Binary files /dev/null and b/tests/disk.qcow2 differ
diff --git a/tests/list b/tests/list
index d89038bc7b61de1e93714ed04035cb2cca210417..dc6347c32928d215e9ff4e9513aa4674c8d311dd 100644
--- a/tests/list
+++ b/tests/list
@@ -711,3 +711,6 @@ dbus-comment.service text/x-dbus-service
 binary.stl model/stl oxo
 ascii.stl model/stl
 test.gcode text/x.gcode ox
+
+# QEMU disk image
+disk.qcow2 application/x-qemu-disk