What is the difference between .qcow2 and .tgz?
- Extension
- .qcow2
- .tgz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- QEMU
- GNU
- Description
- It is a disk image file format for the QEMU processor emulator.
- Unix .TAR file archive compressed with Gnu Zip (.GZIP) compression; uses a TAR archive to bundle the files together and Gzip compression to reduce the file size; commonly used on Unix and Linux systems; originally created as the shorthand version of the compound extension .TAR.GZ.
- MIME Type
- application/x-qemu-disk
- application/x-compressed
- Sample
- sample.tgz
- Wikipedia
- .qcow2 on Wikipedia
- .tgz on Wikipedia