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Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH: Control over drive open modes for backing file
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Daniel P. Berrange |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH: Control over drive open modes for backing file |
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Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:08:42 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.4.1i |
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 01:15:37PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > - Adds a new option to the '-drive' command line parameter to specify
> > how the file should be opened, and any fallback
>
> I would like to open the main file read-write, but the backing file
> read-only, as the backing file is shared among many images.
>
> Can your options choose that?
No, you'd need to add further options for that - the existing code
opens the backing files with same mode as the primary files, and my
change maintains that behaviour.
Daniel
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- [Qemu-devel] PATCH: Control over drive open modes for backing file, Daniel P. Berrange, 2008/07/31
- Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH: Control over drive open modes for backing file, Jamie Lokier, 2008/07/31
- Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH: Control over drive open modes for backing file,
Daniel P. Berrange <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH: Control over drive open modes for backing file, Daniel P. Berrange, 2008/07/31
- Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH: Control over drive open modes for backing file, Paul Brook, 2008/07/31
- Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH: Control over drive open modes for backing file, Daniel P. Berrange, 2008/07/31
- Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH: Control over drive open modes for backing file, Blue Swirl, 2008/07/31
- Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH: Control over drive open modes for backing file, Jamie Lokier, 2008/07/31
- Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH: Control over drive open modes for backing file, Daniel P. Berrange, 2008/07/31
- Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH: Control over drive open modes for backing file, Blue Swirl, 2008/07/31
- Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH: Control over drive open modes for backing file, Chris Wedgwood, 2008/07/31
Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH: Control over drive open modes for backing file, Anthony Liguori, 2008/07/31