On 08/26/2014 08:38 PM, Fam Zheng wrote:
> On Tue, 08/26 21:48, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> Some servers (notably VMware ESX) accept range requests, but don't
>> send back the Accept-Ranges: bytes header in their initial response.
>>
>> For these servers you can set override_accept_ranges to 'on' which
>> forces this block driver to send range requests anyway.

Is this a case where we should be naming with dashes instead of
underscores, as in override-accept-ranges?

>> @@ -489,6 +490,11 @@ static QemuOptsList runtime_opts = {
>>              .type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
>>              .help = "Verify SSL certificate"
>>          },
>> +        {
>> +            .name = CURL_BLOCK_OPT_OVERRIDE_ACCEPT_RANGES,
>> +            .type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
>> +            .help = "Server accepts range requests"
>> +        },

It would be nice for someone to finally port the QAPI counterpart
(BlockdevOptions) so that curl devices can be hotplugged via
blockdev-add.  But I guess that's a separate patch.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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