From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH: Control over drive open modes for backing file
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:08:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080731130842.GB18548@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080731121537.GA16481@shareable.org>
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 01:15:37PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > - Adds a new option to the '-drive' command line parameter to specify
> > how the file should be opened, and any fallback
>
> I would like to open the main file read-write, but the backing file
> read-only, as the backing file is shared among many images.
>
> Can your options choose that?
No, you'd need to add further options for that - the existing code
opens the backing files with same mode as the primary files, and my
change maintains that behaviour.
Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-31 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-31 11:31 [Qemu-devel] PATCH: Control over drive open modes for backing file Daniel P. Berrange
2008-07-31 12:15 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-07-31 13:08 ` Daniel P. Berrange [this message]
2008-07-31 13:34 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-07-31 13:46 ` Paul Brook
2008-07-31 13:55 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-07-31 15:05 ` Blue Swirl
2008-07-31 16:01 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-07-31 16:10 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-07-31 18:07 ` Blue Swirl
2008-07-31 14:58 ` Chris Wedgwood
2008-07-31 18:26 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-07-31 18:59 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-07-31 19:37 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-08-01 7:46 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-08-01 15:14 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-08-01 9:18 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-08-01 14:48 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-08-01 16:47 ` Ian Jackson
2008-08-01 17:09 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-08-01 17:10 ` Jamie Lokier
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