- Extension
- .qcow
- .zip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- QEMU
- Phil Katz
- 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.
- A ZIP file is an archive that contains one or more files compressed or "zipped" using Zip compression. It stores files separately from each other allowing the files to be compressed using different methods and extracted without compressing or decompressing the entire archive.
- MIME Type
- application/x-qemu-disk
- application/zip
