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[Qemu-block] [PATCH v5 2/2] qemu-img: Document --force-share / -U


From: Fam Zheng
Subject: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v5 2/2] qemu-img: Document --force-share / -U
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 10:52:47 +0800

Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <address@hidden>
---
 qemu-img.texi | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/qemu-img.texi b/qemu-img.texi
index 60a0e080c6..e83e140f7a 100644
--- a/qemu-img.texi
+++ b/qemu-img.texi
@@ -86,6 +86,15 @@ exclusive with the @var{-O} parameters. It is currently 
required to also use
 the @var{-n} parameter to skip image creation. This restriction may be relaxed
 in a future release.
 
address@hidden --force-share (-U)
+
+If specified, @code{qemu-img} will open the image with shared permissions,
+which makes it less likely to conflict with a running guest's permissions due
+to image locking. For example, this can be used to get the image information
+(with 'info' subcommand) when the image is used by a running guest. Note that
+this could produce inconsistent results because of concurrent metadata changes,
+etc. This option is only allowed when opening images in read-only mode.
+
 @item --backing-chain
 will enumerate information about backing files in a disk image chain. Refer
 below for further description.
-- 
2.14.3




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