> Did you look at the VMDK "Stream-Optimized Compressed" subformat? > > http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vddk/vmdk_50_technote.pdf? > src=vmdk > > It is a stream of compressed "grains" (data). They are out-of-order and each > grain comes with the virtual disk lba where the data should be visible to the > guest. >
What kind of license is applied to that specification?