What is the difference between .qcow and .tar.7z?
- Extension
- .qcow
- .tar.7z
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- QEMU
- Igor Pavlov
- 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 format works based on the LZMA principle compression algorithm. It was originally used in 7-Zip archives. tar.7z archives were created for storing info about file owners and for ease of use in Unix systems, based on a TAR archiving tool.
- MIME Type
- application/x-qemu-disk
- application/x-7z-compressed
- Wikipedia
- .qcow on Wikipedia
- .tar.7z on Wikipedia