On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 08:37:22AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> writes: > > > 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? > > Yes.
Thanks for reviewing. I'm actually going to drop this for a couple of reasons: - VMware vSphere does send the header, only ESX doesn't. - When you access ESX (using this patch) eventually the ESX web server crashes. In a sense ESX was correct that it doesn't support ranges -- because it's buggy. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org
