What is the difference between .qcow and .xz?
- Extension
- .qcow
- .xz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- QEMU
- Tukaani
- 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.
- Commonly used for Linux software distribution, XZ files are archive files compressed with XZ compression algorithm. It may hold one or more compressed files.
- MIME Type
- application/x-qemu-disk
- application/x-xz
- Wikipedia
- .qcow on Wikipedia
- .xz on Wikipedia