Hi! Now here's something.. interesting.
I tested -blockdev here with a real image. This way: qemu-system-x86_64 ... -snapshot \ -blockdev qcow2,node-name=q,file.driver=file,file.filename=w.qcow2 \ -device ide-hd,drive=q I always use -snapshot when testing something, not to damage the image. And to my great surprise, the above command *did* damage my image. It looks like -snapshot is entirely ignored by -blockdev. This is quite a serious issue, to me anyway, - it is seriously unexpected. If it is intentional, I think an error should be thrown back because the expectation is definitely different. Or am I doing it wrong? Thanks, /mjt
