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

[Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>]

Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
> > On 06/16/2009 08:46 PM, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > >Users who expect things to just work will be even more surprised that
> > >"-hda image" where image is read-only does not give any error from
> > >QEMU, but their guest crashes.  Or that "-hda image" works as usual,
> > >and their guest crashes, and eventually they discover it's because
> > >their disk image is not writable, and it's always worked before
> > >because they were using -snapshot or something like that, and QEMU
> > >didn't warn them it would be a problem...
> > 
> > I agree, for non-cdroms/floppies, non-backing store files we should 
> > require write access.
> 
> Did you miss that read-only disks exist, as seen through
> SCSI/USB/virtio, and that guests will mount them read-only automatically?

I see that you didn't; our mails passed in the mist.

Ok. :-)

-- Jamie