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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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/658610
Title:
Check whether images hav
Public bug reported:
KVM/Qemu should check whether the disk images have write permissions in
order to prevent users from getting weird IO errors in their VMs without
understanding what's happening.
** Affects: qemu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: kvm (Ubuntu)
Imp