What is the difference between .qcow and .bz2?
- Extension
- .qcow
- .bz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- QEMU
- Julian Seward
- Description
- Qcow is a disk image file format used by the QEMU virtual machine software. It is a copy-on-write format that allows users to take snapshots of a virtual machine and save them to a file. Qcow files can be used to store operating systems, applications, and data, and they are compressed and support encryption.
- An archive file developed by Bzip2 compressor mainly found on Unix OS. Its popularly used to move Linux application packages because of its high-level compression algorithms i.e. the Burrows-Wheeler compression and Run-Length Encoding (RLE).
- MIME Type
- application/x-qemu-disk
- application/x-bzip2
- Sample
- sample.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .qcow on Wikipedia
- .bz2 on Wikipedia