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To: Corey Bryant <coreyb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, libvir-list@redhat.com, aliguori@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, tchicks@us.ibm.com

I have to say I really hate it.  We've been working hard on getting rid
of special cases in the qemu block layer, and this sprinkles them all
over.  I'd recommend to fix your security model instead.