diff --git a/src/qemu.conf b/src/qemu.conf
index 1f10b43e53b1c78a4426381e601b5f25a3cf4aa9..9aecc2637e5329e67771fbae52c5df99f17620a4 100644
--- a/src/qemu.conf
+++ b/src/qemu.conf
@@ -134,8 +134,8 @@
 # memory from the domain is dumped out directly to a file.  If you have
 # guests with a large amount of memory, however, this can take up quite
 # a bit of space.  If you would like to compress the images while they
-# are being saved to disk, you can also set "gzip", "bzip2", or "lzma"
-# for save_image_format.  Note that this means you slow down the
-# process of saving a domain in order to save disk space.
+# are being saved to disk, you can also set "gzip", "bzip2", "lzma"
+# or "lzop" for save_image_format.  Note that this means you slow down
+# the process of saving a domain in order to save disk space.
 #
 # save_image_format = "raw"
diff --git a/src/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu_driver.c
index f51430761aaa272ff7406b4cec8deb5a0581fd15..3ebe8020e287ff4f2ecb2e9675193f0cbad2a77e 100644
--- a/src/qemu_driver.c
+++ b/src/qemu_driver.c
@@ -3483,6 +3483,7 @@ enum qemud_save_formats {
     QEMUD_SAVE_FORMAT_GZIP,
     QEMUD_SAVE_FORMAT_BZIP2,
     QEMUD_SAVE_FORMAT_LZMA,
+    QEMUD_SAVE_FORMAT_LZOP,
 };
 
 struct qemud_save_header {
@@ -3523,6 +3524,8 @@ static int qemudDomainSave(virDomainPtr dom,
         header.compressed = QEMUD_SAVE_FORMAT_BZIP2;
     else if (STREQ(driver->saveImageFormat, "lzma"))
         header.compressed = QEMUD_SAVE_FORMAT_LZMA;
+    else if (STREQ(driver->saveImageFormat, "lzop"))
+        header.compressed = QEMUD_SAVE_FORMAT_LZOP;
     else {
         qemudReportError(dom->conn, dom, NULL, VIR_ERR_OPERATION_FAILED,
                          "%s", _("Invalid save image format specified in configuration file"));
@@ -3615,6 +3618,9 @@ static int qemudDomainSave(virDomainPtr dom,
     else if (header.compressed == QEMUD_SAVE_FORMAT_LZMA)
         internalret = virAsprintf(&command, "migrate \"exec:"
                                   "lzma -c >> '%s' 2>/dev/null\"", safe_path);
+    else if (header.compressed == QEMUD_SAVE_FORMAT_LZOP)
+        internalret = virAsprintf(&command, "migrate \"exec:"
+                                  "lzop -c >> '%s' 2>/dev/null\"", safe_path);
     else {
         qemudReportError(dom->conn, dom, NULL, VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR,
                          _("Invalid compress format %d"),
@@ -4237,6 +4243,8 @@ static int qemudDomainRestore(virConnectPtr conn,
             intermediate_argv[0] = "bzip2";
         else if (header.compressed == QEMUD_SAVE_FORMAT_LZMA)
             intermediate_argv[0] = "lzma";
+        else if (header.compressed == QEMUD_SAVE_FORMAT_LZOP)
+            intermediate_argv[0] = "lzop";
         else if (header.compressed != QEMUD_SAVE_FORMAT_RAW) {
             qemudReportError(conn, NULL, NULL, VIR_ERR_OPERATION_FAILED,
                              _("Unknown compressed save format %d"),