From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH: Control over drive open modes for backing file
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:15:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080731121537.GA16481@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080731113120.GJ23888@redhat.com>
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?
The monitor 'commit' command implies that the (first) backing file is
opened writable, if the main file is.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-31 12:15 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 [this message]
2008-07-31 13:08 ` Daniel P. Berrange
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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