[Bug 453441] Re: qemu-kvm should link against libcurl to be able to boot/stream off of http://..../*.iso

[Dustin Kirkland]

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

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qemu-kvm should link against libcurl to be able to boot/stream off of http://..../*.iso
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/453441
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