What is the difference between .qcow and .tgz?
- Extension
- .qcow
- .tgz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- QEMU
- GNU
- 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.
- Unix .TAR file archive compressed with Gnu Zip (.GZIP) compression; uses a TAR archive to bundle the files together and Gzip compression to reduce the file size; commonly used on Unix and Linux systems; originally created as the shorthand version of the compound extension .TAR.GZ.
- MIME Type
- application/x-qemu-disk
- application/x-compressed
- Sample
- sample.tgz
- Wikipedia
- .qcow on Wikipedia
- .tgz on Wikipedia