Hello, qemu fails when the disk image file is writable but on a readonly filesystem (so it is not really writable).
The patch below fixes this. It also declares a local function "static" (maybe this part of the patch is a matter of taste). Regards, Stefan --- block.c 19 Aug 2006 11:45:59 -0000 1.34 +++ block.c 21 Aug 2006 16:46:21 -0000 @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ } -void bdrv_register(BlockDriver *bdrv) +static void bdrv_register(BlockDriver *bdrv) { if (!bdrv->bdrv_aio_read) { /* add AIO emulation layer */ @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ else open_flags = flags & ~(BDRV_O_FILE | BDRV_O_SNAPSHOT); ret = drv->bdrv_open(bs, filename, open_flags); - if (ret == -EACCES && !(flags & BDRV_O_FILE)) { + if ((ret == -EACCES || ret == -EROFS) && !(flags & BDRV_O_FILE)) { ret = drv->bdrv_open(bs, filename, BDRV_O_RDONLY); bs->read_only = 1; } _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel