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Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 11:00:06 +0200
From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] block: add block driver read only
	whitelist
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To: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@redhat.com

Am 29.05.2013 um 10:41 hat Fam Zheng geschrieben:
> We may want to include a driver in the whitelist for read only tasks
> such as diagnosing or exporting guest data (with libguestfs as a good
> example). This patch introduces a readonly whitelist option, and for
> backward compatibility, the old configure option --block-drv-whitelist
> is now an alias to rw whitelist.
> 
> Drivers in readonly list is only permitted to open file readonly, and
> returns -ENOTSUP for RW opening.
> 
> E.g. To include vmdk readonly, and others read+write:
>     ./configure --target-list=x86_64-softmmu \
>                 --block-drv-rw-whitelist=qcow2,raw,file,qed \
>                 --block-drv-ro-whitelist=vmdk
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>

Thanks, applied to the block branch.

Kevin