From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Naphtali Sprei <nsprei@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Added 'access' option to -drive flag
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:49:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B42543C.4060506@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ljgsbux8.fsf@crossbow.pond.sub.org>
On 12/24/2009 03:09 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Naphtali Sprei<nsprei@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> Added 'access' option to -drive flag
>>
>> The new option is: access=[rw|ro|auto]
>> rw: open the drive's file with Read and Write permission, don't continue if failed
>> ro: open the file only with Read permission
>> auto: open the file with Read and Write permission, if failed, try only Read permision
>>
>> For compatibility reasons, the default is 'auto'. Should be changed later on.
>>
>> This option is to replace the 'readonly' options added lately.
>
> Can we take the readonly parameter away? It's undocumented, for
> whatever that's worth...
readonly made 0.12. Semantics, readonly makes it to the disk emulation
whereas this effects how the file is opened.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
next parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-05 20:06 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <m3ljgsbux8.fsf@crossbow.pond.sub.org>
2010-01-04 20:49 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2010-01-06 0:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Added 'access' option to -drive flag Jamie Lokier
2010-01-06 7:47 ` Naphtali Sprei
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