[Qemu-discuss] Antw: Windows marks read-only disks as failed

[Steffen Weißgerber]

Hi,

Google is your friend:

http://superuser.com/questions/213005/how-to-mount-an-ntfs-partition-read-only-in-windows


Regards

Steffen


>>> Tomáš  Vondra <address@hidden> schrieb am Mittwoch, 26.
Oktober 2016 um
14:45:
> Hi!
> 
> We have a public OpenStack cloud and on it a backup and restore
service for 
> Linux, which mounts virtual disk snapshots read-only. We wanted to
use the 
> same for Windows.
> 
> When Windows is presented with a hot-plugged virtio-scsi device which
is 
> read-only, it marks it as failed, doesn't show any partitions,
doesn't allow 
> to online it, and of course cannot clear the read-only flag, as most
articles 
> on the 'net suggest.
> 
> Any tips to make this work? Or is there and inherent limitation of
Windows 
> or the Windows virtio drivers so it won't work no matter what we do?
> 
> Thanks, Tomas, homeatcloud.cz

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