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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Added 'access' option to -drive flag
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To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Naphtali Sprei <nsprei@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 12/24/2009 03:09 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Naphtali Sprei<nsprei@redhat.com>  writes:
>
>> Added 'access' option to -drive flag
>>
>> The new option is: access=[rw|ro|auto]
>> rw: open the drive's file with Read and Write permission, don't continue if failed
>> ro: open the file only with Read permission
>> auto: open the file with Read and Write permission, if failed, try only Read permision
>>
>> For compatibility reasons, the default is 'auto'. Should be changed later on.
>>
>> This option is to replace the 'readonly' options added lately.
>
> Can we take the readonly parameter away?  It's undocumented, for
> whatever that's worth...

readonly made 0.12.   Semantics, readonly makes it to the disk emulation 
whereas this effects how the file is opened.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori