Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests.

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 11:06:24PM +0000, Paul Brook wrote:
> > Sure, but there are plenty of other ways to accidentally mess up the
> > permissions of a disk image file. A while back I had to strace qemu to
> > figure out why file modifications were vanishing after rebooting the
> > VM; the culprit turned out to be an unrelated script that had set the
> > image file's mode to 444.
> 
> If you really want to do this, do it properly. Make it an error to use a ro 
> image if the user [implicitly] requests rw access.

But if you do this please be sure not to complain about rw COW images
based on readonly ones...

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery