Editing QEMU (section)

===Supported disk image formats===
QEMU supports the following [[disk image]] formats:<ref name="X1QXO3">{{cite web |title=QEMU Emulator User Documentation |url=https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html#disk_005fimages |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190427013412/https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html#disk_005fimages |archive-date=2019-04-27 |access-date=2018-04-10 |website=qemu.weilnetz.de}}</ref>
* [[macOS]] [[Universal Disk Image Format]] (<code>.dmg</code>) – Read-only
* [[Bochs]] – Read-only
* [[Linux]] [[cloop]] – Read-only
* [[Parallels, Inc.|Parallels]] disk image (<code>.hdd</code>, <code>.hds</code>) – Read-only
* [[Qcow|QEMU copy-on-write]] (<code>.qcow2</code>, <code>.qed</code>, <code>.qcow</code>, <code>.cow</code>)
* [[VirtualBox]] [[VDI (file format)|Virtual Disk Image]] (<code>.vdi</code>)
* [[Virtual PC]] [[VHD (file format)|Virtual Hard Disk]] (<code>.vhd</code>)
* Virtual [[VFAT]]
* [[VMware]] [[VMDK|Virtual Machine Disk]] (<code>.vmdk</code>)
* [[IMG (file format)|Raw images]] (<code>.img</code>) that contain sector-by-sector contents of a disk
* [[ISO image|CD/DVD images]] (<code>.iso</code>) that contain sector-by-sector contents of an optical disk (e.g. booting live OSes)<ref name="XFZZb3">{{cite web |date=3 August 2015 |title=Booting from an ISO image using qemu |url=https://linux-tips.com/t/booting-from-an-iso-image-using-qemu/136 |website=Linux Tips}}</ref>