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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:31:55 +0000
From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] A different way to ask for readonly drive
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To: Naphtali Sprei <nsprei@redhat.com>
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On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 03:35:07PM +0200, Naphtali Sprei wrote:
>  block.c       |   29 +++++++++++++++++------------
>  block.h       |    7 +++++--
>  hw/xen_disk.c |    3 ++-
>  monitor.c     |    2 +-
>  qemu-config.c |    4 ++--
>  qemu-img.c    |   14 ++++++++------
>  qemu-nbd.c    |    2 +-
>  vl.c          |   42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------

Please update qemu-options.hx, the -drive documentation.

As well as helping users, this also allows us (libvirt, libguestfs) to
detect whether the particular version of qemu we are using offers this
feature.

Rich.

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