On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 09:52:42 +0000, Daniel Berrange wrote:
On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 10:42:10AM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
> If a -drive has no image, using image properties makes qemu whine that
> they should not be used.
>
> This patch stops formating cache/readonly/... for empty drives
> for the pre-blockdev syntax. Unfortunately those parameters can't be
> added later when inserting media, but on the other hand qemu will start
> with an empty drive.
So, IIUC, if you need to set cache/readonly/etc when inserting media,
then the fix is simply to use a QEMU that supports blockdev?
Yes. With blockdev we setup the cache modes as the user
wishes/configures. Currently AFAIK the user would not get the required
mode anyways.
This should not be any problem for cdroms. Floppy drives might end up
with incorrect cache mode.