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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] block: add block driver read only whitelist
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Kevin Wolf |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] block: add block driver read only whitelist |
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Wed, 29 May 2013 11:00:06 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
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 <address@hidden>
Thanks, applied to the block branch.
Kevin