On 2018-09-03 16:34, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> 'force-share' is one of the basic BlockdevOptions available for all
> drivers, but it's not handled by bdrv_reopen_prepare() so any attempt
> to change it results in a "Cannot change the option" error:
> 
>    (qemu) qemu-io virtio0 "reopen -o force-share=on"
>    Cannot change the option 'force-share'
> 
> Since there's no reason why we shouldn't allow changing it and the
> implementation is simple let's just do it.
> 
> It's worth noting that after this patch the above reopen call will
> still return an error -although a different one- if the image is not
> read-only:
> 
>    (qemu) qemu-io virtio0 "reopen -o force-share=on"
>    force-share=on can only be used with read-only images
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <be...@igalia.com>
> Cc: Max Reitz <mre...@redhat.com>
> ---
>  block.c               | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  include/block/block.h |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mre...@redhat.com>

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