Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> I guess using file locking by default would improve the situation, and 
>> we can add a -drive ...,exclusive=no option for people playing with 
>> cluster filesystems.
>>     
>
> Turning on file locking by default will break existing apps / deployments
> using shared disks. IMHO this is a policy decision that should be solved 
> at ahigher level in the management stack where a whole world view is 
> available rather than QEMU which only knows about its own VM & host.
>   

Running a newer qemu with an older libvirt would pose a problem, yes.  
But we shouldn't ignore unmanaged deployments.

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