diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/qcow2_format.py b/tests/qemu-iotests/qcow2_format.py
index 28f2bfa63bc7..898d388b8adf 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/qcow2_format.py
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/qcow2_format.py
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Library for manipulations with qcow2 image
 #
+# Copyright (c) 2020 Virtuozzo International GmbH.
+#
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
@@ -18,6 +20,68 @@ import struct
 import string


+class Qcow2StructMeta(type):
+
+    # Mapping from c types to python struct format
+    ctypes = {
+        'u8': 'B',
+        'u16': 'H',
+        'u32': 'I',
+        'u64': 'Q'
+    }
+
+    def __init__(self, name, bases, attrs):
+        if 'fields' in attrs:
+            self.fmt = '>' + ''.join(self.ctypes[f[0]] for f in self.fields)
+
+
+class Qcow2Struct(metaclass=Qcow2StructMeta):
+
+    """Qcow2Struct: base class for qcow2 data structures
+
+    Successors should define fields class variable, which is: list of tuples,
+    each of three elements:
+        - c-type (one of 'u8', 'u16', 'u32', 'u64')
+        - format (format_spec to use with .format() when dump or 'mask' to dump
+                  bitmasks)
+        - field name
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, fd=None, offset=None, data=None):
+        """
+        Two variants:
+            1. Specify data. fd and offset must be None.
+            2. Specify fd and offset, data must be None. offset may be omitted
+               in this case, than current position of fd is used.
+        """
+        if data is None:
+            assert fd is not None
+            buf_size = struct.calcsize(self.fmt)
+            if offset is not None:
+                fd.seek(offset)
+            data = fd.read(buf_size)
+        else:
+            assert fd is None and offset is None
+
+        values = struct.unpack(self.fmt, data)
+        self.__dict__ = dict((field[2], values[i])
+                             for i, field in enumerate(self.fields))
+
+    def dump(self):
+        for f in self.fields:
+            value = self.__dict__[f[2]]
+            if f[1] == 'mask':
+                bits = []
+                for bit in range(64):
+                    if value & (1 << bit):
+                        bits.append(bit)
+                value_str = str(bits)
+            else:
+                value_str = f[1].format(value)
+
+            print('{:<25} {}'.format(f[2], value_str))
+
+
 class QcowHeaderExtension:

     def __init__(self, magic, length, data):
@@ -34,16 +98,7 @@ class QcowHeaderExtension:
         return QcowHeaderExtension(magic, len(data), data)


-# Mapping from c types to python struct format
-ctypes = {
-    'u8': 'B',
-    'u16': 'H',
-    'u32': 'I',
-    'u64': 'Q'
-}
-
-
-class QcowHeader:
+class QcowHeader(Qcow2Struct):

     fields = (
         # Version 2 header fields
@@ -69,18 +124,8 @@ class QcowHeader:
         ('u32', '{}', 'header_length'),
     )

-    fmt = '>' + ''.join(ctypes[f[0]] for f in fields)
-
     def __init__(self, fd):
-
-        buf_size = struct.calcsize(QcowHeader.fmt)
-
-        fd.seek(0)
-        buf = fd.read(buf_size)
-
-        header = struct.unpack(QcowHeader.fmt, buf)
-        self.__dict__ = dict((field[2], header[i])
-                             for i, field in enumerate(QcowHeader.fields))
+        super().__init__(fd=fd, offset=0)

         self.set_defaults()
         self.cluster_size = 1 << self.cluster_bits
@@ -148,20 +193,6 @@ class QcowHeader:
         buf = buf[0:header_bytes-1]
         fd.write(buf)

-    def dump(self):
-        for f in QcowHeader.fields:
-            value = self.__dict__[f[2]]
-            if f[1] == 'mask':
-                bits = []
-                for bit in range(64):
-                    if value & (1 << bit):
-                        bits.append(bit)
-                value_str = str(bits)
-            else:
-                value_str = f[1].format(value)
-
-            print(f'{f[2]:<25} {value_str}')
-
     def dump_extensions(self):
         for ex in self.extensions:

