On 02/22/2011 08:23 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > This patch series introduces two new APIs to allow data upload/download > to/from storage volumes, using the streams APIs. Mostly I wrote this so > I had an easier way to test the streams handling in my RPC patch series > than using QEMU tunnelled migration code. Cole has expressed an interest > in this kind of functionality in the past to allow virt-manager to upload > kernel/initrd to remote hosts for provisioning guests. > > Most of the code here is pretty boring & trivial. The first patch is the > one that is remotely interesting. One might argue we should just spawn > 'dd' instead of this, but dd has some annoying aspects (you can't control > its write offset in units smaller than the block size) and this could be > useful more broadly. > Hmm doesn't look like any of the CreateUpload stuff is implemented? Dropped from an earlier patch or just not finished yet? If that was implemented, I think it would be all virt-manager would really need to facilitate URL installation on remote machines. Thanks, Cole -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list