What is the difference between .qcow2 and .xz?
- Extension
- .qcow2
- .xz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- QEMU
- Tukaani
- Description
- It is a disk image file format for the QEMU processor emulator.
- Commonly used for Linux software distribution, XZ files are archive files compressed with XZ compression algorithm. It may hold one or more compressed files.
- MIME Type
- application/x-qemu-disk
- application/x-xz
- Wikipedia
- .qcow2 on Wikipedia
- .xz on Wikipedia