diff --git a/main.c b/main.c
index 69977b3..5331928 100644
--- a/main.c
+++ b/main.c
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 
 	kvm__setup_cpuid(kvm);
 
-	strcpy(real_cmdline, "notsc nolapic nosmp noacpi pci=conf1 earlyprintk=ttyS0,keep root=fc00 ");
+	strcpy(real_cmdline, "notsc nolapic nosmp noacpi pci=conf1 earlyprintk=ttyS0,keep root=fc00 rw ");
 	if (kernel_cmdline) {
 		strlcat(real_cmdline, kernel_cmdline, sizeof(real_cmdline));
 		real_cmdline[sizeof(real_cmdline)-1] = '\0';