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

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 01:50:32AM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 09:23:53PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > > It'd be nice to enforce it, instead of depending on good behaviour
> > > from the guest.
> > 
> > Right - but in libguestfs everything is controlled by the host so we
> > can rely on good behaviour in our case.
> 
> In that case, why do you need the ",snapshot=on"?

Did I say that?  I meant that we use that only for read-only access to
hard drives, not for CD-ROMs.  Here's the actual code:

http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blob;f=src/guestfs.c;h=fdf5cd369842557b744bac2a80fdbd97fa4e8d60;hb=13229b1d54c03be098ab75e6d451b5b46a98550d#l661

Rich.

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