Comment 3 for bug 453441
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| Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) wrote Re: [Bug 453441] Re: qemu-kvm should link against libcurl to be able to boot/stream off of http://..../*.iso | #3 |
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Martin Pitt <email address hidden> 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