Martin, I've tested the package in karmic-proposed. Verifying this one is *very* easy. I would appreciate it if someone else would try the instructions in the description.
:-Dustin ** Description changed: Binary package hint: qemu-kvm qemu-kvm has the ability to boot off of a remote, http iso. This is really, really useful, particularly when testing daily iso's, or from a system like my laptop with a small SSD hard drive. All we need to do to enable this is to build-depend on libcurl4-gnutls- dev. :-Dustin =========================== SRU Justification This is truly a wishlist item, but absolutely trivial to fix, and very high impact. This should significantly improve our developers', testers', and users' abilities to test ISOs during the Lucid cycle. We simple need to build-depend on a curl library. This will enable kvm to actually boot using -cdrom http://remote.host/path/to/image.iso, streaming the ISO over a network connection. The impact is tremendous. On systems with relatively small hard disks (SSDs, eg), it can be very beneficial to save some disk space and stream ISOs. This should in no way affect any other functionality. The risk of regression should be negligible. TEST CASE: - * kvm -m 512 -cdrom http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu-releases/8.04.3/ubuntu-8.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso + * kvm -m 512 -cdrom http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu-releases/8.04.3/ubuntu-8.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso + Should boot to the graphical desktop. (Actually, you can stop if you see the bootloader screen.) =========================== -- 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
