What is the difference between .qcow and .gz?
- Extension
- .qcow
- .gz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- QEMU
- The GNU Project
- 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.
- This is a compressed archive file that contains one or more files compressed by standard GNU zip (gzip) compression algorithm. It is mainly used by Unix OS.
- MIME Type
- application/x-qemu-disk
- application/x-compressed
- Sample
- sample.gz
- Wikipedia
- .qcow on Wikipedia
- .gz on Wikipedia