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| From: | Gerd Hoffmann |
| Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] Regression opening read-only cdroms |
| Date: | Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:11:22 +0200 |
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On 06/16/09 18:28, Anthony Liguori wrote:
Jamie Lokier wrote:What's missing is a "ro" sub-option to "-drive".It only is useful if we can expose that read-only attribute to the guest. You can't do that consistently with all block devices so the result would be that you'll fail write operations causing a guest to crash.
Well, I think all except ide-disk can signal r/o medium to the guest.
This is not friendly to a user who expects that ro would Just Work.
chmod a-w $diskimage And you'll run into the same issue today. cheers, Gerd
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