What is the difference between .qcow and .tar?
- Extension
- .qcow
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Other
- Developer
- QEMU
- Jean-loup Gailly
- 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.
- Tar archive created by tar, a Unix-based utility used to package files together; contains multiple files stored in an uncompressed format; commonly compressed into a .GZ file using GNU Zip compression.
- MIME Type
- application/x-qemu-disk
- application/x-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar
- Wikipedia
- .qcow on Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia