Fix has been included here: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=a41c457881b5463b18901a849
** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1596870 Title: qemu-img backed over https fails on zero-length file Status in QEMU: Fix Committed Bug description: When creating new disk with qemu-img backed by file accessed over HTTPS and the backing file has zero length, qemu-img fails with uninformative error: qemu-img: disk.qcow2: CURL: Error opening file: The error message should either be improved, or the operation on zero- length file should be allowed. Some other backends, as e.g. raw backend for regular files, seem to allow empty files. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1596870/+subscriptions