The IDE bus doesn't support readonly disks, so inform the user with an error message instead of let qemu fail with a more obscure "Device 'ide-hd' could not be initialized" error message. Closes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1112939 Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c index 63f322a..4829176 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c @@ -3385,8 +3385,15 @@ qemuBuildDriveStr(virConnectPtr conn, disk->bus != VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_BUS_IDE) virBufferAddLit(&opt, ",boot=on"); if (disk->readonly && - virQEMUCapsGet(qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_DRIVE_READONLY)) + virQEMUCapsGet(qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_DRIVE_READONLY)) { + if (disk->bus == VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_BUS_IDE && + disk->device == VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_DEVICE_DISK) { + virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED, "%s", + _("readonly ide disks are not supported")); + goto error; + } virBufferAddLit(&opt, ",readonly=on"); + } if (disk->transient) { virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED, "%s", _("transient disks not supported yet")); -- 1.9.3 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list