1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py
index b7816167e8..ba44b96f53 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ class QemuRunner:
                 self._dump_host()
                 raise SystemExit
 
-    def start(self, qemuparams = None, get_ip = True, extra_bootparams = None, runqemuparams='', launch_cmd=None):
+    def start(self, qemuparams = None, get_ip = True, extra_bootparams = None, runqemuparams='', launch_cmd=None, discard_writes=True):
         if self.display:
             os.environ["DISPLAY"] = self.display
             # Set this flag so that Qemu doesn't do any grabs as SDL grabs
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ class QemuRunner:
             os.environ["DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE"] = self.deploy_dir_image
 
         if not launch_cmd:
-            launch_cmd = 'runqemu snapshot %s' % runqemuparams
+            launch_cmd = 'runqemu %s %s ' % ('snapshot' if discard_writes else '', runqemuparams)
             if self.use_kvm:
                 logger.info('Using kvm for runqemu')
                 launch_cmd += ' kvm'