Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <[email protected]>
---
qemu-img.texi | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/qemu-img.texi b/qemu-img.texi
index fdcf120f36..3aa63aad55 100644
--- a/qemu-img.texi
+++ b/qemu-img.texi
@@ -57,6 +57,14 @@ 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, qemu-img will open the image with shared permissions, which makes
+it less likely to conflict with a running guest's permissions due to image
+locking. 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 result because of concurrent metadata changes, etc..
+
@item fmt
is the disk image format. It is guessed automatically in most cases. See below
for a description of the supported disk formats.
--
2.14.3
