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

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Dietmar Maurer <address@hidden> wrote:
>> The VMDK format has strong disadvantages:
>>
>> - unclear License (the spec links to patents)
>> - they use a very slow compression algorithm (deflate), which makes it
>> unusable for backup
>
> Seems they do not support multiple configuration files. You can only
> a single text block, and that needs to contain vmware specific info.
> So where do I add my qemu related config?

This is true.  QEMU uses a VMDK as a single disk image.  To handle
multiple disks there would need to be multiple images plus a vmstate
or config file.

Stefan