From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35991) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vlh5b-0000DD-1W for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 10:31:48 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vlh5U-0004hn-Rl for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 10:31:42 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:55750) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vlh5U-0004hf-KE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 10:31:36 -0500 Received: from int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.25]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id rARFVYCQ013725 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 10:31:35 -0500 Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 16:31:32 +0100 From: Stefan Hajnoczi Message-ID: <20131127153132.GC14978@stefanha-thinkpad.muc.redhat.com> References: <1385517991-19194-1-git-send-email-famz@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1385517991-19194-1-git-send-email-famz@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] vmdk: Allow version 3 read only open List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Fam Zheng Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 10:06:29AM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote: > According to an update on VMware Knowledge Base [KB 2064959], we should be safe > to open version 3 as read only. This is meaningful as an compatibility > improvement, so let's enable it. Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi But please add a comment in vmdk.c that links to the Knowledge Base or explains that version 3 simply adds the new CBT file which we can ignore for reads.