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...ying to do? Hi Nir and Eric, I hope you are well! (I'm resurecting this old thread, not sure how I missed the replies.) We are interested in attaching a local ISO to a remote VM over http (maybe .qcow's, but ISO is the primary interest). This is common for remote KVM (iDRAC/iLO/iKVM/CIMC), so wondering about an http front-end for qemu to do the same. Combining that with a spice JS client or noVNC for VM console access would be neat. I also like Eric Blake's idea of direct NBD client integration with qemu instead of using /dev/nbd0. -Eric > > Nir > >

...domain socket) to a local nbdkit, and nbdkit's curl plugin to connect to the remote ISO. More info and a worked example in these pages: http://libguestfs.org/nbdkit-curl-plugin.1.html https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2018/11/23/nbdkit-xz-curl/ > This is common for remote KVM (iDRAC/iLO/iKVM/CIMC), so wondering about > an http front-end for qemu to do the same. I'm a bit confused by what you mean by "http front-end for qemu". > Combining that with a spice JS client or noVNC for VM console access would > be neat. These are separate issues. qemu has a VNC or SPICE...

...in.1.html > https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2018/11/23/nbdkit-xz-curl/ Looks neat, perhaps we would write a plugin to integrate with a webserver (cgi, php, etc) for the JS client instead of implementing the whole protocol over websockets. > > This is common for remote KVM (iDRAC/iLO/iKVM/CIMC), so wondering about > > an http front-end for qemu to do the same. > > Combining that with a spice JS client or noVNC for VM console access would > > be neat. > > I'm a bit confused by what you mean by "http front-end for qemu". When qemu is running headle...