Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [et-mgmt-tools] Image Corruption Possible with qemu and qemu-kvm

[Paul Jakma]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Alexander Graf wrote:

> Paul Jakma wrote:

> > I think that's unlikely, and it'd be nice if QEMU by default did a
> > fcntl() on writeable image files to lock itself from multiple access,
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> I'm usually running one "main" qemu instance that has read/write 
> access to the disk file and several others for tests that use the 
> -snapshot option, so I think it's very important to have an easy 
> means of switching this check off.

Of course. Though, I said 'writeable' - so you might not need to use 
such an option.. ;)

regards,
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