On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Martin Pitt <martin.p...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > This is a new feature which hasn't been in Ubuntu before. How much was > this tested?
I have run this extensively myself. The kvm I generally run on my own hardware is a kvm that I build myself. I have that library on my system and in my chroots, so the build of kvm that I've been using has had it for a while now. I use it extensively, as I boot from ISOs on my mirror over my local gigabit network all the time. Saves a lot of disk space on my local system. That said, I didn't notice that this was missing from the official deb's until very late into Karmic RC, so I didn't upload it. > Was there ever a review about potential security issues? Not that I know of. > Does it change the default behaviour in any way? Default behavior -- no. I think the risk of regression is very, very, very low. Most users will never boot from a remote ISO, so they'll never see this. If they do, and for some reason it doesn't work, then they're no worse off than they were before (not being able to boot from an ISO url). I think the upshot is very valuable. Many people (including Ubuntu developers) will continue using Karmic to develop Lucid. It would be very nice, this cycle, to be able to boot VMs in this way, using an http/ftp style URL. If you're really opposed to this, I suppose that we could just push it to -backports. That's okay, I guess. I simply added it to this SRU since I was fixing/uploading anyway, and the advantage is very nice. Thanks for the careful look, Martin. :-Dustin -- qemu-kvm should link against libcurl to be able to boot/stream off of http://..../*.iso https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/453441 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to qemu-kvm in ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
