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

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Dietmar Maurer <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > The documents says: VMware products are covered by one or more
>> patents
>> > listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents
>> >
>> > I simply do not have the time to check all those things, which make that
>> format unusable for me.
>>
>> In think proxmox ships the QEMU vmdk functionality today?  In that case you
>> should check this :).
>
> Well, and also remove it from the qemu repository? Such things are not 
> compatible with GPL?

If you are really concerned about this then submit a patch to add
./configure --disable-vmdk, ship QEMU without VMDK, and drop it from
your documentation/wiki.

If you're not really concerned, then let's accept that VMDK support is okay.

Stefan