qemu-img: Document --force-share / -U

Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

diff --git a/qemu-img.texi b/qemu-img.texi
index 60a0e080c6c810e85d2af58dc29e187d6f4c8b4f..8a26400adbb2aa6cea97e5bae77c500beb3b7452 100644 (file)
--- a/qemu-img.texi
+++ b/qemu-img.texi
@@ -86,6 +86,14 @@ exclusive with the @var{-O} parameters. It is currently required to also use
 the @var{-n} parameter to skip image creation. This restriction may be relaxed
 in a future release.
 
+@item --force-share (-U)
+If specified, @code{qemu-img} will open the image in shared mode, allowing
+other QEMU processes to open it in write mode. For example, this can be used to
+get the image information (with 'info' subcommand) when the image is used by a
+running guest.  Note that this could produce inconsistent results because of
+concurrent metadata changes, etc. This option is only allowed when opening
+images in read-only mode.
+
 @item --backing-chain
 will enumerate information about backing files in a disk image chain. Refer
 below for further description.