semantic: 0.708 device: 0.667 graphic: 0.607 network: 0.594 hypervisor: 0.588 mistranslation: 0.550 register: 0.476 ppc: 0.471 permissions: 0.454 socket: 0.453 user-level: 0.451 vnc: 0.416 architecture: 0.410 kernel: 0.408 PID: 0.394 virtual: 0.390 boot: 0.364 risc-v: 0.343 files: 0.316 debug: 0.316 VMM: 0.315 TCG: 0.314 i386: 0.291 arm: 0.263 performance: 0.213 x86: 0.202 assembly: 0.195 peripherals: 0.142 KVM: 0.123 RBD Namespaces are not supported Ceph Nautilus (v14.2.0) introduced the Namespaces concept for RADOS Block Devices. This provides a logical separation within a RADOS Pool for RBD images which enables granular access control. See https://docs.ceph.com/docs/nautilus/releases/nautilus/ for additional details. librados and librbd support this, however qemu does not. The rbd man page defines how rbd images within a namespace can be referenced. https://docs.ceph.com/docs/nautilus/man/8/rbd/#image-snap-group-and-journal-specs Adding support for RBD namespaces would be beneficial for security and reducing the impact of a hypervisor being compromised and putting an entire Ceph pool or cluster at risk. I just posted a patch today on the qemu-devel mailing list, you can find it there : https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-12/msg04344.html Thanks for adding the support. I was actually already play-testing your patch. I'll respond to the mailing list soon. Patch had been included here: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/19ae9ae01471552