On Fri, 12/08 09:54, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 09:44:56AM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > +@item --force-share (-U)
> > +
> > +If specified, @code{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.
>
> The documentation isn't clear on whether read-write is supported or just
> read-only.
block.c will emit an error if used with read-write. I will add a sentence for
that.
Fam
