Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests.

[Jan Marten Simons <marten@xtal.rwth-aachen.de>]

Rob Landley schrieb:
> 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
>   
I think adding a simple (suppressable) warning on startup would be 
sufficient in case of a ro image.

Jan