From: Fam Zheng <[email protected]>
Management tools create overlays of running guests with qemu-img:
$ qemu-img create -b /image/in/use.qcow2 -f qcow2 /overlay/image.qcow2
but this doesn't work anymore due to image locking:
qemu-img: /overlay/image.qcow2: Failed to get shared "write" lock
Is another process using the image?
Could not open backing image to determine size.
Use the force share option to allow this use case again.
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <[email protected]>
---
block.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/block.c b/block.c
index db0be7ef36..dd90dca896 100644
--- a/block.c
+++ b/block.c
@@ -4605,10 +4605,11 @@ void bdrv_img_create(const char *filename, const char
*fmt,
back_flags = flags;
back_flags &= ~(BDRV_O_RDWR | BDRV_O_SNAPSHOT | BDRV_O_NO_BACKING);
+ backing_options = qdict_new();
if (backing_fmt) {
- backing_options = qdict_new();
qdict_put_str(backing_options, "driver", backing_fmt);
}
+ qdict_put_bool(backing_options, BDRV_OPT_FORCE_SHARE, true);
bs = bdrv_open(full_backing, NULL, backing_options, back_flags,
&local_err);
--
2.13.6
