Re: [Qemu-discuss] Antw: Windows marks read-only disks as failed

[admin]

No sir,
Google is my enemy, at least in this case. I do not even see the volumes (that 
in Windowsian means partitions). Windows marks the whole disk as failed.
Tomas


Steffen Weißgerber – Thu., 27. October 2016 10:22
> Hi,
> 
> Google is your friend:
> 
> superuser.com/questions/213005/how-to-mount-an-ntfs-partition-read-only-in-windows
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Steffen
> 
> 
> >>> Tomáš  Vondra <address@hidden> schrieb am Mittwoch, 26.
> Oktober 2016 um
> 14:45:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > We have a public OpenStack cloud and on it a backup and restore
> service for 
> > Linux, which mounts virtual disk snapshots read-only. We wanted to
> use the 
> > same for Windows.
> > 
> > When Windows is presented with a hot-plugged virtio-scsi device which
> is 
> > read-only, it marks it as failed, doesn't show any partitions,
> doesn't allow 
> > to online it, and of course cannot clear the read-only flag, as most
> articles 
> > on the 'net suggest.
> > 
> > Any tips to make this work? Or is there and inherent limitation of
> Windows 
> > or the Windows virtio drivers so it won't work no matter what we do?
> > 
> > Thanks, Tomas, homeatcloud.cz
> 
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