i thought it might be good to post this on qemu-devel as well, as i see this as a general qemu / kvm / xen /whatevercomesnext issue . are there any plans to implement a default in qemu to prevent accessing the same image multiple times ? i know that in xen they deal with this problem somehow xen specific. wouldn't it be good to prevent multiple access to the same image by default and add a switch to overwrite it ? i am sure other people had the same issue as i had (corrupting images) and would be great to prevent people in the future messing around with data loss :-) Sven <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td width=40%>Sven Oehme/Germany/IBM@IBMDE Sent by: et-mgmt-tools-bounces@redhat.com 08/27/2007 09:38 PM <table border> <tr valign=top> <td bgcolor=white> <div align=center>Please respond to Fedora/Linux Management Tools <et-mgmt-tools@redhat.com></div></table> <td width=59%> <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>To</div> <td>Fedora/Linux Management Tools <et-mgmt-tools@redhat.com> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>cc</div> <td> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>Subject</div> <td>[et-mgmt-tools] Image Corruption Possible with qemu and qemu-kvm</table> <table> <tr valign=top> <td> <td></table> </table> Hi, i corrupted a couple of virtual Linux images last week as i accidentally started them two times .. i opened a bug against qemu (not sure if this was a good idea) --> <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=253533">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=253533</a> are there any plans to ensure that this can't happen in future releases of virt-manager with lock files in the image directory or similar ? thanks. Sven <tt>_______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@redhat.com </tt><a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools"><tt>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools</tt></a>