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Re: [Qemu-devel] Regression opening read-only cdroms
From: |
Jamie Lokier |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] Regression opening read-only cdroms |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:02:58 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
> > On 06/16/2009 08:46 PM, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > >Users who expect things to just work will be even more surprised that
> > >"-hda image" where image is read-only does not give any error from
> > >QEMU, but their guest crashes. Or that "-hda image" works as usual,
> > >and their guest crashes, and eventually they discover it's because
> > >their disk image is not writable, and it's always worked before
> > >because they were using -snapshot or something like that, and QEMU
> > >didn't warn them it would be a problem...
> >
> > I agree, for non-cdroms/floppies, non-backing store files we should
> > require write access.
>
> Did you miss that read-only disks exist, as seen through
> SCSI/USB/virtio, and that guests will mount them read-only automatically?
I see that you didn't; our mails passed in the mist.
Ok. :-)
-- Jamie
- [Qemu-devel] Regression opening read-only cdroms, Avi Kivity, 2009/06/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Regression opening read-only cdroms, Jamie Lokier, 2009/06/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Regression opening read-only cdroms, Stefano Stabellini, 2009/06/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Regression opening read-only cdroms, Jamie Lokier, 2009/06/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Regression opening read-only cdroms, Anthony Liguori, 2009/06/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Regression opening read-only cdroms, Stefano Stabellini, 2009/06/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Regression opening read-only cdroms, Jamie Lokier, 2009/06/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Regression opening read-only cdroms, Avi Kivity, 2009/06/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Regression opening read-only cdroms, Jamie Lokier, 2009/06/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Regression opening read-only cdroms,
Jamie Lokier <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Regression opening read-only cdroms, Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/06/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Regression opening read-only cdroms, Avi Kivity, 2009/06/17
Re: [Qemu-devel] Regression opening read-only cdroms, Avi Kivity, 2009/06/16
Re: [Qemu-devel] Regression opening read-only cdroms, Richard W.M. Jones, 2009/06/18