OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/21751/KVM-87_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:43:17 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Comment by FunkyELF http://osnews.com/thread?370915 http://osnews.com/thread?370915
A good use case for this new feature is booting a livecd over http with a command like "qemu-kvm -cdrom http://www.sample.com/linux.iso". Awesome!


I would hope that this stuff gets stored in a fashion like torrents work, where you download bits and pieces at a time as needed. I would hope that multiple reads from the same spot of the ISO wouldn't go over HTTP again.

I'm interested to see how well this works. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (FunkyELF) Comments HTTP http://osnews.com/thread?371030 http://osnews.com/thread?371030 Although it sounds incredibly inefficient as I assume the disk image will not remain on your hard disk for future use, that is kinda cool :-)

Incredibly trivial to implement (if a URL is passed, tell Curl to download the URL and then use it like a regular file), but cool nonetheless. I'm sure someone will find a good use for it. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (3rdalbum) Comments