What is the difference between .qcow2 and .gzip?
- Extension
- .qcow2
- .gzip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- QEMU
- GNU
- Description
- It is a disk image file format for the QEMU processor emulator.
- A compressed file format associated with GNU Zip (Gzip) that uses the DEFLATE compression algorithm, a combination of both the Huffman coding and the Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) codec.
- MIME Type
- application/x-qemu-disk
- application/x-gzip
- Wikipedia
- .qcow2 on Wikipedia
- .gzip on Wikipedia