Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] block: curl: Allow arbitrary HTTP request headers to be set.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 03:24:48PM +0000, Nir Soffer wrote:
> Other issue that you need to consider is that you cannot
> create images via the http. Images are created only via
> engine API/UI.

We've got a separate bit of Python creating the image so I think we're
ok here.

> What ovirt-imageio give you is a way to
> read and write data to existing image. The url you get is
> mostly like an open file descriptor you can use with read()
> and write().

OK.

In fact in my experiment with oVirt 4.2 it *did* work without the
Authorization header, but we believed that was a bug in oVirt, we
didn't know it was designed to do that, thanks for clarifying it.

In any case I'm pretty sure we do need ca.pem (second patch).

> Note that you cannot access yet a chain of image via a url, since
> ovirt generate a random url per image in a chain. For example,
> if you have this chain:
> 
> base-img <- top-image (top)

I think we're OK for what virt-v2v is doing.

Thanks,

Rich.

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