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

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Dietmar Maurer <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 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.

No, it should be an option.  Users who care about compatibility can use deflate.

Stefan