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Diffstat (limited to 'qemu-options.hx')
| -rw-r--r-- | qemu-options.hx | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx index 681eaf198e..087a3b9376 100644 --- a/qemu-options.hx +++ b/qemu-options.hx @@ -135,7 +135,8 @@ DEF("drive", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_drive, " [,cyls=c,heads=h,secs=s[,trans=t]][,snapshot=on|off]\n" " [,cache=writethrough|writeback|none|directsync|unsafe][,format=f]\n" " [,serial=s][,addr=A][,id=name][,aio=threads|native]\n" - " [,readonly=on|off]\n" + " [,readonly=on|off][,copy-on-read=on|off]\n" + " [[,bps=b]|[[,bps_rd=r][,bps_wr=w]]][[,iops=i]|[[,iops_rd=r][,iops_wr=w]]\n" " use 'file' as a drive image\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL) STEXI @item -drive @var{option}[,@var{option}[,@var{option}[,...]]] @@ -186,6 +187,9 @@ host disk is full; report the error to the guest otherwise). The default setting is @option{werror=enospc} and @option{rerror=report}. @item readonly Open drive @option{file} as read-only. Guest write attempts will fail. +@item copy-on-read=@var{copy-on-read} +@var{copy-on-read} is "on" or "off" and enables whether to copy read backing +file sectors into the image file. @end table By default, writethrough caching is used for all block device. This means that @@ -213,10 +217,14 @@ qcow2. If performance is more important than correctness, In case you don't care about data integrity over host failures, use cache=unsafe. This option tells qemu that it never needs to write any data to the disk but can instead keeps things in cache. If anything goes wrong, -like your host losing power, the disk storage getting disconnected accidently, +like your host losing power, the disk storage getting disconnected accidentally, etc. you're image will most probably be rendered unusable. When using the @option{-snapshot} option, unsafe caching is always used. +Copy-on-read avoids accessing the same backing file sectors repeatedly and is +useful when the backing file is over a slow network. By default copy-on-read +is off. + Instead of @option{-cdrom} you can use: @example qemu -drive file=file,index=2,media=cdrom |