Opened 8 years ago
Last modified 8 years ago
#15506 new enhancement
Feature request: compression
| Reported by: | Lieutenant | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | virtual disk | Version: | |
| Keywords: | compress compression zip | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | all | Host type: | other |
Description
Just as encryption was introduced, it would be nice to have compression as well. Benefits:
- saves storage space, especially on VMs living on an SSD
- saves data when downloading pre-built appliances
- increases the entropy for the encryption operation
Info: I tried to use Windows's built-in transparent compression on a Windows 7 guest: the space got shrinked from over 30GB to 16GB.
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Compression supported by FS, but #15604.