On 16 August 2012 10:00, Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> wrote: > People have repeatedly expected that you can do things like snapshotting > an image with qemu-img while a qemu instance is running. Maybe we need > to consider locking the files while they are in use, but having a > warning in the qemu-img manpage is doable for 1.2 and can't hurt anyway. > > Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> > --- > qemu-img.texi | 8 ++++++++ > 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/qemu-img.texi b/qemu-img.texi > index 77c6d0b..0b363e7 100644 > --- a/qemu-img.texi > +++ b/qemu-img.texi > @@ -4,6 +4,14 @@ usage: qemu-img command [command options] > @c man end > @end example
Some minor grammar tweaks: > +@c man begin DESCRIPTION > +qemu-img allows to create, convert and modify images offline. It can handle > all > +image formats supported by QEMU. "allows you to". > + > +@b{Warning:} Never use qemu-img to modify images in use by a running virtual > +machine or any other process, this may destroy the image. ";" or ", because". > +@c man end > + > @c man begin OPTIONS > > The following commands are supported: > -- > 1.7.6.5 -- PMM