Patch attached for SRU review. I will upload it with 2 other bugs. :-Dustin
** Description changed: Binary package hint: qemu-kvm qemu-kvm has the ability to boot off of a remote, http iso. This is really, really useful, particularly when testing daily iso's, or from a system like my laptop with a small SSD hard drive. All we need to do to enable this is to build-depend on libcurl4-gnutls- dev. :-Dustin + + =========================== + SRU Justification + + This is truly a wishlist item, but absolutely trivial to fix, and very + high impact. This should significantly improve our developers', + testers', and users' abilities to test ISOs during the Lucid cycle. We + simple need to build-depend on a curl library. This will enable kvm to + actually boot using -cdrom http://remote.host/path/to/image.iso, + streaming the ISO over a network connection. The impact is tremendous. + On systems with relatively small hard disks (SSDs, eg), it can be very + beneficial to save some disk space and stream ISOs. This should in no + way affect any other functionality. The risk of regression should be + negligible. + + TEST CASE: + * kvm -m 512 -cdrom http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu-releases/8.04.3/ubuntu-8.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso + =========================== ** Attachment added: "453441.patch" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34608852/453441.patch -- qemu-kvm should link against libcurl to be able to boot/stream off of http://..../*.iso https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/453441 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
