auto-read-only=on changed its behaviour in file-posix for the 4.0
release. This change cannot be detected through the usual mechanisms
like schema introspection. Add a new feature to query-qemu-features to
allow libvirt to detect the presence of the new behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com>
---
qapi/misc.json | 7 ++++++-
qmp.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/qapi/misc.json b/qapi/misc.json
index d892f37633..df23c54a65 100644
--- a/qapi/misc.json
+++ b/qapi/misc.json
@@ -3058,10 +3058,15 @@
# Information about support for QEMU features that isn't available through
# schema introspection.
#
+# @file-posix-dynamic-auto-read-only:
+# true if auto-read-only=on means that the image file is dynamically reopened
+# read-only or read-write depending on whether any writers are attached to
+# the node.
+#
# Since: 4.0
##
{ 'struct': 'QemuFeatures',
- 'data': { } }
+ 'data': { 'file-posix-dynamic-auto-read-only': 'bool' } }
##
# @query-qemu-features:
diff --git a/qmp.c b/qmp.c
index 0aad533eca..2a887c1e7d 100644
--- a/qmp.c
+++ b/qmp.c
@@ -723,6 +723,7 @@ QemuFeatures *qmp_query_qemu_features(Error **errp)
QemuFeatures *caps = g_new(QemuFeatures, 1);
*caps = (QemuFeatures) {
+ .file_posix_dynamic_auto_read_only = true,
};
return caps;
--
2.20.1
