Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kcham...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com>
---
qemu-img.texi | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/qemu-img.texi b/qemu-img.texi
index 60a0e080c6..e83e140f7a 100644
--- a/qemu-img.texi
+++ b/qemu-img.texi
@@ -86,6 +86,15 @@ 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, @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 results because of concurrent metadata changes,
+etc. This option is only allowed when opening images in read-only mode.
+
@item --backing-chain
will enumerate information about backing files in a disk image chain. Refer
below for further description.
--
2.14.3
