[Kimchi-devel] [RFC] removing hostname to IP resolve in remote ISO

[Crístian Viana]

+1

On 02-04-2015 16:06, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> As discussed in our latest scrum meeting and in github bug #436, the 
> use of the IP address
> instead of the hostname in the URLs are causing issues. This is a 
> workaround due to a limitation
> of older qemu-io versions that don't resolve hostnames and hangs.
>
> The thing is that we have no control of how the remote server will 
> resolve the URL in that format
> ( http://91.189.92.163:80/14.04/ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso 
> instead of 
> http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04/ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso for 
> example). It can resolve the IP to hostname and work as intended, it 
> can redirect to the home page (as the example I gave), it can give a 
> 403 forbidden and so on.
>
> This limitation is not present in newer versions of qemu (tested in 
> RHEL 7.1, Fedora 21, Ubuntu
> 14.04 and Opensuse 13.2), therefore it is just a code that have a 
> random chance of failing to work.
> In my opinion, we should get rid of it and let qemu-io handle it 
> alone. If qemu-io can't handle the remote
> ISO streaming by itself, the user can:
>
> - update qemu
> - use an older version of kimchi
> - download the ISO and use it as Local ISO Image
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
> Daniel
>
>
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