Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC for new features

[Fabrice Bellard]

Antony T Curtis wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 15:03, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
>
> > About the new features: none of them will be for the upcoming 0.6.0 
> > release. Maybe for 0.6.1.
> >
> > Some comments:
> >
> > - The old console will still be available with a command line option.
>
>
> Cool,
>
>
> > - The disk images will support both free sector compression (as cow 
> > images) and "read-only" zlib based block compression, so that the 
> > FreeOSZoo disk images do not need to be decompressed. QEMU itself will 
> > never store compressed blocks as it is more complicated and less useful.
>
>
> How about lzo compression? It is vary fast for compression and
> decompression and doesn't require much memory to operate.

I just want that downloaded images can be easily used. Compression for 
writing is less useful because hard disks are big enough, so it won't be 
available in the first implementation. I agree that LZO would be a good 
choice for a read/write compression system.

Fabrice.