What is the difference between .qcow and .zipx?
- Extension
- .qcow
- .zipx
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- QEMU
- PKWARE, Inc.
- 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.
- WinZip, starting with version 12.1, uses the extension .zipx for ZIP files that use compression methods newer than DEFLATE; specifically, methods BZip, LZMA, PPMd, Jpeg and Wavpack. The last 2 are applied to appropriate file types when "Best method" compression is selected.
- MIME Type
- application/x-qemu-disk
- application/zip
- Wikipedia
- .qcow on Wikipedia
- .zipx on Wikipedia