We never write to a backing file, so opening rw is useless. It just means that you can't rebase on top of a file for which you don't have write permissions.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> --- qemu-img.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/qemu-img.c b/qemu-img.c index e300f91..d2a978b 100644 --- a/qemu-img.c +++ b/qemu-img.c @@ -1286,7 +1286,7 @@ static int img_rebase(int argc, char **argv) } bs_new_backing = bdrv_new("new_backing"); - ret = bdrv_open(bs_new_backing, out_baseimg, BDRV_O_FLAGS | BDRV_O_RDWR, + ret = bdrv_open(bs_new_backing, out_baseimg, BDRV_O_FLAGS, new_backing_drv); if (ret) { error("Could not open new backing file '%s'", out_baseimg); -- 1.7.2.2