Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add HTTP protocol using curl

[Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>]

On 4/9/09, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> 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.
>
>  Warning:
>
>  With stock qemu I do get segmentation faults accessing http backed
>  files, with kvm-userspace's IO threads I don't. I haven't tracked
>  down why exactly that happens though.
>
>  Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>

The docs should be updated as well.

>  +    sprintf(s->range, "%lld-%lld", start, end);

Please use snprintf.