1. Overview Qcow2 (QEMU Copy-On-Write version 2) is a disk image format used by the QEMU/KVM virtualization stack. A Windows 8 Qcow2 image is a virtual hard disk that contains a fully installed and configured copy of Microsoft Windows 8 (or 8.1) operating system, optimized for use in a QEMU-based environment (including Proxmox VE, oVirt, Red Hat Virtualization, and cloud stacks like OpenStack).
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