Hi,
We are updating some machines in our server farm to Ubuntu natty (KVM /
Opennebula cluster). Since then we used to have some VM with shared
read-only IDE disks to mirror software repositories through several isolated
networks (one-way data diode).
The updated qemu does not allow it. It failed to start the VM with a 'Can't
use a read-only drive' error. After checking in the qemu git, it seems that
this has been forbidden by this commit
'7aa9c811ca0761918a0252d0f923a80224953fa6' :
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Author: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> 2010-06-28 19:10:36
Committer: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> 2010-07-06 17:05:50
Parent: c4d74df726cb3791d9f1661b58067df5608b627e (ide: Make ide_init_drive()
return success)
Child: dce9e92834cc4f962e547cae46b73ca559d05b0c (ide: Reject invalid CHS
geometry)
Branches: master, remotes/origin/master, remotes/origin/stable-0.13,
remotes/origin/stable-0.14, remotes/origin/stable-0.15
Follows: v0.12.0-rc0
Precedes: v0.13.0-rc0
ide: Reject readonly drives unless CD-ROM
drive_init() doesn't permit option readonly for if=ide, but that's
worthless: we get it via if=none and -device.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com>
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I do not understand the comment, if there is a workaround or if it something
to avoid.
May you help me to understand it?
Thank you,
Frederic
