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vmdk: Allow read only open of VMDK version 3
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Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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Fam Zheng authored and kevmw committed Nov 29, 2013
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Expand Up @@ -605,13 +605,20 @@ static int vmdk_open_vmdk4(BlockDriverState *bs,
header = footer.header;
}

if (le32_to_cpu(header.version) >= 3) {
if (le32_to_cpu(header.version) > 3) {
char buf[64];
snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "VMDK version %d",
le32_to_cpu(header.version));
qerror_report(QERR_UNKNOWN_BLOCK_FORMAT_FEATURE,
bs->device_name, "vmdk", buf);
return -ENOTSUP;
} else if (le32_to_cpu(header.version) == 3 && (flags & BDRV_O_RDWR)) {
/* VMware KB 2064959 explains that version 3 added support for
* persistent changed block tracking (CBT), and backup software can
* read it as version=1 if it doesn't care about the changed area
* information. So we are safe to enable read only. */
error_setg(errp, "VMDK version 3 must be read only");
return -EINVAL;
}

if (le32_to_cpu(header.num_gtes_per_gt) > 512) {
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