From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC for new features
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 16:57:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40F003BE.8030200@bellard.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1089470834.59382.218.camel@pcgem.rdg.cyberkinetica.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-10 14:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-09 1:59 [Qemu-devel] (Before) RFC for new features Natalia Portillo
2004-07-10 15:37 ` Hetz Ben Hamo
2004-07-09 17:23 ` Natalia Portillo
2004-07-09 17:32 ` Antony T Curtis
2004-07-09 17:57 ` Natalia Portillo
2004-07-09 20:42 ` Jim C. Brown
2004-07-10 2:41 ` Natalia Portillo
2004-07-10 13:10 ` Fabrice Bellard
2004-07-10 14:03 ` [Qemu-devel] " Fabrice Bellard
2004-07-10 14:47 ` Antony T Curtis
2004-07-10 14:57 ` Fabrice Bellard [this message]
2004-07-10 20:53 ` [Qemu-devel] (Before) " Hetz Ben Hamo
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2004-07-08 20:50 [Qemu-devel] " Natalia Portillo
2004-07-08 22:48 ` Natalia Portillo
2004-07-09 19:04 ` Jocelyn Mayer
2004-07-09 19:28 ` Natalia Portillo
2004-07-08 19:19 Thomas Munn
2004-07-09 10:02 ` Johannes Schindelin
2004-07-09 10:34 ` Julian Seward
2004-07-08 18:14 Fabrice Bellard
2004-07-08 18:54 ` Antony T Curtis
2004-07-08 19:36 ` Jim C. Brown
2004-07-08 20:31 ` Jernej Simončič
2004-07-08 21:04 ` Jim C. Brown
2004-07-08 22:37 ` Jernej Simončič
2004-07-08 22:57 ` Jim C. Brown
2004-07-08 19:45 ` Jocelyn Mayer
2004-07-08 19:00 ` Karel Gardas
2004-07-08 21:44 ` vaise
2004-07-08 19:30 ` Jean-Michel POURE
2004-07-08 19:48 ` Brad Watson
2004-07-08 21:37 ` Jan Dittmer
2004-07-08 22:24 ` malc
2004-07-08 19:35 ` Jim C. Brown
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