What is the difference between .qcow2 and .tar.7z?
- Extension
- .qcow2
- .tar.7z
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- QEMU
- Igor Pavlov
- Description
- It is a disk image file format for the QEMU processor emulator.
- This format works based on the LZMA principle compression algorithm. It was originally used in 7-Zip archives. tar.7z archives were created for storing info about file owners and for ease of use in Unix systems, based on a TAR archiving tool.
- MIME Type
- application/x-qemu-disk
- application/x-7z-compressed
- Wikipedia
- .qcow2 on Wikipedia
- .tar.7z on Wikipedia