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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:40:18 +0200
From: Naphtali Sprei <nsprei@redhat.com>
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To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Naphtali Sprei wrote:
<snip>
> I'm planning to investigate where qemu should check the read only attribute before exeuting any write command
> to drives, would be sent in a different patch.

revisiting it, if guest OS knows it's a read only device and tries to modify it, anyhow, we don't really care about error reporting,
as long as qemu doesn't crash (or modify the drive).

 Naphtali