Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 1/3] block: Introduce BDRV_O_NO_BACKING

2010-01-13 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 01/12/2010 05:55 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote: If an image references a backing file that doesn't exist, qemu-img info fails to open this image. Exactly in this case the info would be valuable, though: the user might want to find out which file is missing. This patch introduces a BDRV_O_NO_BACKING

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 1/3] block: Introduce BDRV_O_NO_BACKING

2010-01-12 Thread Kevin Wolf
If an image references a backing file that doesn't exist, qemu-img info fails to open this image. Exactly in this case the info would be valuable, though: the user might want to find out which file is missing. This patch introduces a BDRV_O_NO_BACKING flag to ignore the backing file when opening