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| -rw-r--r-- | softmmu/physmem.c | 19 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/softmmu/physmem.c b/softmmu/physmem.c index f1cd3ec28a..4f6ca653b3 100644 --- a/softmmu/physmem.c +++ b/softmmu/physmem.c @@ -1969,6 +1969,25 @@ RAMBlock *qemu_ram_alloc_from_file(ram_addr_t size, MemoryRegion *mr, if (fd < 0) { error_setg_errno(errp, -fd, "can't open backing store %s for guest RAM", mem_path); + if (!(ram_flags & RAM_READONLY_FD) && !(ram_flags & RAM_SHARED) && + fd == -EACCES) { + /* + * If we can open the file R/O (note: will never create a new file) + * and we are dealing with a private mapping, there are still ways + * to consume such files and get RAM instead of ROM. + */ + fd = file_ram_open(mem_path, memory_region_name(mr), true, + &created); + if (fd < 0) { + return NULL; + } + assert(!created); + close(fd); + error_append_hint(errp, "Consider opening the backing store" + " read-only but still creating writable RAM using" + " '-object memory-backend-file,readonly=on,rom=off...'" + " (see \"VM templating\" documentation)\n"); + } return NULL; } |