Formats are entirely in charge of flushes for metadata writes. For guest-initiated writes, a writethrough cache is faked in the block layer.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> --- block.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/block.c b/block.c index 7add33c..43b3de6 100644 --- a/block.c +++ b/block.c @@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ static int bdrv_open_common(BlockDriverState *bs, const char *filename, if (drv->bdrv_file_open) { ret = drv->bdrv_file_open(bs, filename, open_flags); } else { - ret = bdrv_file_open(&bs->file, filename, open_flags); + ret = bdrv_file_open(&bs->file, filename, open_flags | BDRV_O_CACHE_WB); if (ret >= 0) { ret = drv->bdrv_open(bs, open_flags); } -- 1.7.1