Re: [Qemu-devel] Regression opening read-only cdroms

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 03:33:00PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
> > qemu used to be quite happy opening read-only cdrom images, and I was 
> > quite happy feeding kvm-autotest a library of read-only iso images.
> 
> 1. While we're here, an _option_ to open an image read-only even when
>    you have write permission would be useful, for those occasions when
>    you want to boot from some valuable image and be certain you aren't
>    modifying it - without having to chmod back and forth in
>    Qemu-wrapper scripts, or copy the image first.

FWIW we went round the houses on this one for libguestfs and settled
on using '-drive ...,snapshot=on' instead.  The guest sees the drive
as writable, and any writes are discarded when libguestfs/qemu quits.

Rich.

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