Kevin, thanks again. You've provided enough support for me at this point. I had looked at trying to coalesce multiple -drive values into a single one, and that can definitely be made to work with the newer qemu, but i'm not sure I can make it work with older.
the goal there would be to do something like: $ qemu-system-x86_64 \ -drive id=d01,file.filename=disk1.img,format=qcow2,if=none -\ -device virtio-blk,drive=d01,serial=s01 \ -device virtio-blk,drive=d01,serial=s02 on newer qemu, that works if i change 'id=' to 'node-name', but on older qemu I can't convince it to let me have 1 drive associated to multiple -device. What we ended up doing is at https://code.launchpad.net/~smoser/curtin/trunk.lp1716028-hack-file-locking-in-qemu/+merge/330456 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1716028 Title: qemu 2.10 locks images with no feature flag To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1716028/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs