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authoraliguori <aliguori@c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162>2009-01-07 17:32:33 +0000
committeraliguori <aliguori@c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162>2009-01-07 17:32:33 +0000
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add "serial" parameter to -drive flag (Gleb Natapov)
Windows calculates HW "uniqueness" based on a hard drive serial number among other things. The patch allows to specify drive serial number from a command line. Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@6214 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
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@@ -274,6 +274,8 @@ These options have the same definition as they have in @option{-hdachs}.
Specify which disk @var{format} will be used rather than detecting
the format. Can be used to specifiy format=raw to avoid interpreting
an untrusted format header.
+@item serial=@var{serial}
+This option specifies the serial number to assign to the device.
@end table
By default, writethrough caching is used for all block device. This means that