From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51959) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ele1Z-0002l5-HI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 12:05:48 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ele1X-0005Aw-T9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 12:05:45 -0500 From: Kevin Wolf Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 18:04:37 +0100 Message-Id: <20180213170529.10858-4-kwolf@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20180213170529.10858-1-kwolf@redhat.com> References: <20180213170529.10858-1-kwolf@redhat.com> Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 03/55] qemu-img: Document --force-share / -U List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-block@nongnu.org Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org From: Fam Zheng Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi Reviewed-by: Kashyap Chamarthy Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf --- qemu-img.texi | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/qemu-img.texi b/qemu-img.texi index 60a0e080c6..8a26400adb 100644 --- a/qemu-img.texi +++ b/qemu-img.texi @@ -86,6 +86,14 @@ exclusive with the @var{-O} parameters. It is currently required to also use the @var{-n} parameter to skip image creation. This restriction may be relaxed in a future release. +@item --force-share (-U) +If specified, @code{qemu-img} will open the image in shared mode, allowing +other QEMU processes to open it in write mode. For example, this can be used to +get the image information (with 'info' subcommand) when the image is used by a +running guest. Note that this could produce inconsistent results because of +concurrent metadata changes, etc. This option is only allowed when opening +images in read-only mode. + @item --backing-chain will enumerate information about backing files in a disk image chain. Refer below for further description. -- 2.13.6