Everything besides the top of the chain is readonly. Track this when parsing the XML and detecting the chain from the disk. Also fix the state when taking snapshots. All other cases where the top image is changed already preserve the readonly state from the original image. Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/conf/domain_conf.c | 3 +++ src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 3 +++ src/util/virstoragefile.c | 1 + 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.c b/src/conf/domain_conf.c index b0257068da..21a6c4785a 100644 --- a/src/conf/domain_conf.c +++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c @@ -8734,6 +8734,9 @@ virDomainDiskBackingStoreParse(xmlXPathContextPtr ctxt, if (VIR_ALLOC(backingStore) < 0) goto cleanup; + /* backing store is always read-only */ + backingStore->readonly = true; + /* terminator does not have a type */ if (!(type = virXMLPropString(ctxt->node, "type"))) { VIR_STEAL_PTR(src->backingStore, backingStore); diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c index 7484b00e23..542c625962 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c @@ -14670,6 +14670,9 @@ qemuDomainSnapshotUpdateDiskSources(qemuDomainSnapshotDiskDataPtr dd, if (dd->initialized) virStorageFileDeinit(dd->src); + /* the old disk image is now readonly */ + dd->disk->src->readonly = true; + VIR_STEAL_PTR(dd->disk->src->relPath, dd->relPath); VIR_STEAL_PTR(dd->src->backingStore, dd->disk->src); VIR_STEAL_PTR(dd->disk->src, dd->src); diff --git a/src/util/virstoragefile.c b/src/util/virstoragefile.c index 531540ac91..d6ad6e1d0f 100644 --- a/src/util/virstoragefile.c +++ b/src/util/virstoragefile.c @@ -3425,6 +3425,7 @@ virStorageSourceNewFromBacking(virStorageSourcePtr parent) if (virStorageSourceInitChainElement(ret, parent, true) < 0) goto error; + ret->readonly = true; ret->detected = true; } -- 2.16.2 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list