QEMU Copy-On-Write version 2 is a disk file format that represents a virtual hard drive. Unlike a raw .img file which allocates the full size immediately (e.g., 20GB instantly taken from your SSD), a Qcow2 file grows dynamically.
Benefits for Windows XP:
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One Qcow2 file is not locked to QEMU. You can use it elsewhere:
qemu-img snapshot -a "before_activation" windows-xp.qcow2
