From: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com> Clarify that libvirt will not do any locking on images if the 'lock_manager' field is unset and that qemu still will use the 'flock' based locks on images, which are actually not related to the setting. Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com> --- src/qemu/qemu.conf.in | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu.conf.in b/src/qemu/qemu.conf.in index 97b0141cf6..8ad30a909e 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu.conf.in +++ b/src/qemu/qemu.conf.in @@ -901,6 +901,11 @@ # virtlockd, is then our own implementation. Accepted values # are "sanlock" and "lockd". # +# NOTE: This lock mechanism is not related to QEMU's flock() +# based image locking. +# +# If unset no locking will happen on libvirt level. +# #lock_manager = "lockd" -- 2.54.0