What is the difference between .qcow and .tar.bz2?
- Extension
- .qcow
- .tar.bz2
- 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.
- It is a TAR archive file compressed using BZ2 compression codec and is popularly used to distribute Linux application packages.
- MIME Type
- application/x-qemu-disk
- application/x-bzip-compressed-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .qcow on Wikipedia
- .tar.bz2 on Wikipedia