Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests.

[Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>]

On Friday 09 February 2007 6:06 pm, Paul Brook wrote:
> > Sure, but there are plenty of other ways to accidentally mess up the
> > permissions of a disk image file. A while back I had to strace qemu to
> > figure out why file modifications were vanishing after rebooting the
> > VM; the culprit turned out to be an unrelated script that had set the
> > image file's mode to 444.
> 
> If you really want to do this, do it properly. Make it an error to use a ro 
> image if the user [implicitly] requests rw access.

If there's no middle ground between "silently misbehave" and "refuse to start 
if anything _might_ be wrong", then why does current qemu warn about the 1024 
hz thing?

Just curious.  Refusing to start would have saved me a day's debugging time, 
just like the warning would have...

Rob
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