When I submitted this bug (2 years ago) that was not what happened.
Apparently they fixed it in a newer version.
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by default images are expected to be open read-write. I'm against too
much intelligence here, -- we may be running qemu as wrong user, or
with wrong permissions of the image in question, and qemu should fail to
start if the image can't be open using specified access flags (which is
read-write by
Thanks, Anthony. Does that mean that the bug should be 'Invalid',
or perhaps just 'Wontfix' (for the IDE case)?
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Title:
Check
We can always improve the information to the user for something like so
I've marked this as wishlist.
** Changed in: qemu
Importance: Undecided = Wishlist
** Changed in: qemu
Status: New = Confirmed
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I think what it means that, if the file permission for the disk image in
host OS is read only for the user running qemu, then it is not saying
that clearly. May be qemu should just exit as soon as it sees that image
is read only. I am not sure if in some kind of mode it is possible to
run a VM
This is a legacy behavior in QEMU. There are a number of legitimate use
cases where a user may only have read access to an image and as long as
that image is mounted read-only, everything will work okay.
Virtio and SCSI will expose the read-only attribute to the guest so it
should be very
Can you please add steps to reproduce this bug? It's not clear to me
when this happens.
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Title:
Check whether images have
** Package changed: kvm (Ubuntu) = qemu-kvm (Ubuntu)
** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Wishlist
** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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Check whether images have write permissions
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