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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Pass the drive's readonly attribute to the gues
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Kevin Wolf |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Pass the drive's readonly attribute to the guest OS |
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Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:36:59 +0200 |
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Am 14.10.2009 18:40, schrieb Naphtali Sprei:
> Naphtali Sprei wrote:
> <snip>
>> I'm planning to investigate where qemu should check the read only attribute
>> before exeuting any write command
>> to drives, would be sent in a different patch.
>
> revisiting it, if guest OS knows it's a read only device and tries to modify
> it, anyhow, we don't really care about error reporting,
> as long as qemu doesn't crash (or modify the drive).
If the right response to a write on a read-only device is defined in the
specification (and it most probably is), we should still give the right
response, even though the OS is doing something wrong.
Kevin
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Pass the drive's readonly attribute to the guest OS, Naphtali Sprei, 2009/10/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Pass the drive's readonly attribute to the guest OS, Naphtali Sprei, 2009/10/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Pass the drive's readonly attribute to the guest OS,
Kevin Wolf <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Pass the drive's readonly attribute to the guest OS, Gleb Natapov, 2009/10/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Pass the drive's readonly attribute to the guest OS, Kevin Wolf, 2009/10/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Pass the drive's readonly attribute to the guest OS, Gleb Natapov, 2009/10/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Pass the drive's readonly attribute to the guest OS, Kevin Wolf, 2009/10/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Pass the drive's readonly attribute to the guest OS, Gleb Natapov, 2009/10/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Pass the drive's readonly attribute to the guest OS, Kevin Wolf, 2009/10/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Pass the drive's readonly attribute to the guest OS, Gleb Natapov, 2009/10/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Pass the drive's readonly attribute to the guest OS, Kevin Wolf, 2009/10/15