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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Add HTTP protocol using curl
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To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Alexander Graf wrote:
> Currently Qemu can read from posix I/O and NBD. This patch adds a
> third protocol to the game: HTTP.
>
> In certain situations it can be useful to access HTTP data directly,
> for example if you want to try out an http provided OS image, but
> don't know if you want to download it yet.
>
> Using this patch you can now try it on on the fly. Just use it like:
>
> qemu -cdrom http://host/path/my.iso
>
> In order to not reinvent the wheel, this patch uses libcurl.
>   

I have one of these too that reinvents the wheel.  The main reason was 
to enable bdrv_aio_* implementations.

I'm happy to merge a version that uses libcurl but I don't want to merge 
it unless it's implementing bdrv_aio_.  As far as I'm concerned, 
backends implementing bdrv_read/bdrv_write is deprecated.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori