Change in vdsm[master]: vdsm: hook for booting from an ISO image gathered via https

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Change subject: vdsm: hook for booting from an ISO image gathered via https
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Patch Set 13:

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https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/41076/13/vdsm_hooks/httpsisoboot/README
File vdsm_hooks/httpsisoboot/README:

Line 9: between the VM and the web server: in case of latency spikes or packet loss,
Line 10: the guest will see EIO errors.
Line 11: So it could be adopted with a local web server with plenty of spare capacity
Line 12: and a fast LAN link to RHEV-H, but using it with remotely available ISO
Line 13: images is not recommended.
> Have you considered downloading the image to a local cache first?
http/https support via curl is directly embedded into qemu.
And in ovirt we already have the ISO storage domain; so what we could do on oVirt side is letting the user import the ISO directly from http to the ISO storage domain but this is completely a different feature.
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Line 15: The support for plain http has been removed from qemu-kvm-rhev and qemu-kvm-ev
Line 16:  as a security improvement but it's available upstream.
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