Re: qemu default cache driver

[Ottavio Caruso]

On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 at 11:35, anthony smith <backtogeek@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> Having spent a few days searching I am starting to arrive at the truly 
> bizarre conclusion that there is no way to set the default disk cache 
> driver/mode for qemu globally e.g. 'writeback', 'none', 'writethrough' etc.
>
> It seems unthinkable that this would be the case and it was suggested take a 
> view from the qemu mailing list so here I am having read everything else I 
> can which makes no reference to it and having gone through the qemu.conf on a 
> few different distros.
>
> Am I missing something here?
>
> Cheers.

There's a "-drive cache= " option. It's in the man page.

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Ottavio Caruso