Windows 8 Qcow2 Hot! -

: While QCOW2 offers more features, the RAW disk format generally provides better I/O performance. QCOW2 is preferred when snapshots and space efficiency are more important than raw speed.

| Platform | Feature Support | |----------------|------------------------------------------| | Proxmox VE | Windows 8 guest + QCOW2 + snapshots | | OpenStack | Glance image import as QCOW2 | | VirtualBox | Convert QCOW2 to VDI for Windows 8 | | libvirt | Domain XML templates tuned for Windows 8 | windows 8 qcow2