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From: | Dietmar Maurer |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] RFC: Efficient VM backup for qemu (v1) |
Date: | Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:56:45 +0000 |
> It's a naughty thing to do but we could simply pick a new constant and > support LZO as an incompatible option. The file is then no longer compatible > with existing vmdk tools but at least we then have a choice of using > compatible deflate or the LZO extension. To be 100% incompatible to existing tools? That would remove any advantage. > VMDK already has 99% of what you need and we already have a bunch of > code to handle this format. This seems like a good opportunity to flesh out > VMDK support and avoid reinventing the wheel. Using 'probably' patented software is a bad idea - I will not go that way.
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