Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] RFC: Efficient VM backup for qemu (v1)

[Dietmar Maurer]

> > The VMDK format has strong disadvantages:
> >
> > - unclear License (the spec links to patents)
> 
> I've already pointed out that you're taking an inconsistent position on this
> point.  It's FUD.
> 
> > - they use a very slow compression algorithm (deflate), which makes it
> > unusable for backup
> 
> I've already pointed out that we can optionally support other algorithms.

Well, I guess we both pointed out our opinions. 

I will try to implement some kind of plugging architecture for backup formats.
That way we can implement/support more than one format.