Dor Laor wrote: > Actually this is what happens on mainline qemu with cache=off.
Have I understood right that cache=off on a qcow2 image only uses O_DIRECT for the leaf image, and the chain of base images don't use O_DIRECT? Sometimes on a memory constrained host, where the (collective) guest memory is nearly as big as the host memory, I'm not sure this is what I want. -- Jamie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html