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| author | Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> | 2021-01-04 17:13:19 +0000 |
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| committer | Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> | 2021-02-01 17:07:34 -0500 |
| commit | 86635aa4e9d627d5142b81c57a33dd1f36627d07 (patch) | |
| tree | eea6337f2e0f1661c4da093a987cafc7729a715a /qemu-options.hx | |
| parent | 369d6dc4de45b8e5e35a851f5719e7fd59a0462f (diff) | |
hostmem-file: add readonly=on|off option
Let -object memory-backend-file work on read-only files when the
readonly=on option is given. This can be used to share the contents of a
file between multiple guests while preventing them from consuming
Copy-on-Write memory if guests dirty the pages, for example.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Liam Merwick <liam.merwick@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210104171320.575838-3-stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'qemu-options.hx')
| -rw-r--r-- | qemu-options.hx | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx index d0410f0512..c09c4646e2 100644 --- a/qemu-options.hx +++ b/qemu-options.hx @@ -4426,7 +4426,7 @@ SRST they are specified. Note that the 'id' property must be set. These objects are placed in the '/objects' path. - ``-object memory-backend-file,id=id,size=size,mem-path=dir,share=on|off,discard-data=on|off,merge=on|off,dump=on|off,prealloc=on|off,host-nodes=host-nodes,policy=default|preferred|bind|interleave,align=align`` + ``-object memory-backend-file,id=id,size=size,mem-path=dir,share=on|off,discard-data=on|off,merge=on|off,dump=on|off,prealloc=on|off,host-nodes=host-nodes,policy=default|preferred|bind|interleave,align=align,readonly=on|off`` Creates a memory file backend object, which can be used to back the guest RAM with huge pages. @@ -4509,6 +4509,9 @@ SRST 4.15) and the filesystem of ``mem-path`` mounted with DAX option. + The ``readonly`` option specifies whether the backing file is opened + read-only or read-write (default). + ``-object memory-backend-ram,id=id,merge=on|off,dump=on|off,share=on|off,prealloc=on|off,size=size,host-nodes=host-nodes,policy=default|preferred|bind|interleave`` Creates a memory backend object, which can be used to back the guest RAM. Memory backend objects offer more control than the |