Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] curl: Add override_accept_ranges flag to force sending range requests.

2014-08-27 Thread Daniel H Barboza
On 08/26/2014 05:48 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Some servers (notably VMware ESX) accept range requests, but don't send back the Accept-Ranges: bytes header in their initial response. For these servers you can set override_accept_ranges to 'on' which forces this block driver to send range req

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] curl: Add override_accept_ranges flag to force sending range requests.

2014-08-27 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 08:37:22AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Eric Blake writes: > > > On 08/26/2014 08:38 PM, Fam Zheng wrote: > >> On Tue, 08/26 21:48, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >>> Some servers (notably VMware ESX) accept range requests, but don't > >>> send back the Accept-Ranges: by

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] curl: Add override_accept_ranges flag to force sending range requests.

2014-08-27 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 08:57:30PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 08/26/2014 08:38 PM, Fam Zheng wrote: > > On Tue, 08/26 21:48, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >> Some servers (notably VMware ESX) accept range requests, but don't > >> send back the Accept-Ranges: bytes header in their initial response.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] curl: Add override_accept_ranges flag to force sending range requests.

2014-08-26 Thread Markus Armbruster
Eric Blake writes: > On 08/26/2014 08:38 PM, Fam Zheng wrote: >> On Tue, 08/26 21:48, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >>> Some servers (notably VMware ESX) accept range requests, but don't >>> send back the Accept-Ranges: bytes header in their initial response. >>> >>> For these servers you can set ove

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] curl: Add override_accept_ranges flag to force sending range requests.

2014-08-26 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/26/2014 08:38 PM, Fam Zheng wrote: > On Tue, 08/26 21:48, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> Some servers (notably VMware ESX) accept range requests, but don't >> send back the Accept-Ranges: bytes header in their initial response. >> >> For these servers you can set override_accept_ranges to 'on'

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] curl: Add override_accept_ranges flag to force sending range requests.

2014-08-26 Thread Fam Zheng
On Tue, 08/26 21:48, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Some servers (notably VMware ESX) accept range requests, but don't > send back the Accept-Ranges: bytes header in their initial response. > > For these servers you can set override_accept_ranges to 'on' which > forces this block driver to send range

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] curl: Add override_accept_ranges flag to force sending range requests.

2014-08-26 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
Some servers (notably VMware ESX) accept range requests, but don't send back the Accept-Ranges: bytes header in their initial response. For these servers you can set override_accept_ranges to 'on' which forces this block driver to send range requests anyway. Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones ---

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] curl: Add override_accept_ranges flag to force sending range

2014-08-26 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
If you use this patch + Daniel Henrique Barboza's patch that adds a timeout, then you can access guest files on VMware ESX servers. Rich.