diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.html.in b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
index f5a36d903d..240571fca3 100644
--- a/docs/formatdomain.html.in
+++ b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
@@ -1509,6 +1509,14 @@
<target dev='hdc' bus='ide' tray='open'/>
<readonly/>
</disk>
+ <disk type='network' device='cdrom'>
+ <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
+ <source protocol="https" name="url_path">
+ <host name="hostname" port="443"/>
+ </source>
+ <target dev='hdc' bus='ide' tray='open'/>
+ <readonly/>
+ </disk>
<disk type='network' device='cdrom'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
<source protocol="ftp" name="url_path">
diff --git a/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng b/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
index ecd3a42544..2f91f0fe43 100644
--- a/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
+++ b/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
@@ -1231,6 +1231,7 @@
gluster
iscsi
http
+ https
ftp
diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.c b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
index e5fe900241..04563f6e73 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_conf.c
+++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
@@ -265,6 +265,7 @@ VIR_ENUM_IMPL(virDomainDiskProtocol, VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_PROTOCOL_LAST,
"gluster",
"iscsi",
"http",
+ "https",
"ftp")
VIR_ENUM_IMPL(virDomainDiskProtocolTransport, VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_PROTO_TRANS_LAST,
diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.h b/src/conf/domain_conf.h
index e4dfee9fc7..d54b29e29c 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_conf.h
+++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.h
@@ -543,6 +543,7 @@ enum virDomainDiskProtocol {
VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_PROTOCOL_GLUSTER,
VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_PROTOCOL_ISCSI,
VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_PROTOCOL_HTTP,
+ VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_PROTOCOL_HTTPS,
VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_PROTOCOL_FTP,
VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_PROTOCOL_LAST
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
index 152143158f..883b5130f6 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
@@ -3905,6 +3905,12 @@ qemuBuildDriveStr(virConnectPtr conn ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
disk->hosts->port ? disk->hosts->port : "80");
virBufferEscape(&opt, ',', ",", "%s,", disk->src);
break;
+ case VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_PROTOCOL_HTTPS:
+ virBufferAsprintf(&opt, "file=https://%s:%s",
+ disk->hosts->name,
+ disk->hosts->port ? disk->hosts->port : "443");
+ virBufferEscape(&opt, ',', ",", "%s,", disk->src);
+ break;
case VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_PROTOCOL_FTP:
virBufferAsprintf(&opt, "file=ftp://%s:%s",
disk->hosts->name,
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-cdrom-network-https.args b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-cdrom-network-https.args
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..affa794f54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-cdrom-network-https.args
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+LC_ALL=C PATH=/bin HOME=/home/test USER=test LOGNAME=test QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none \
+/usr/bin/kvm -S \
+-M pc-1.2 -m 1024 -smp 1 -nographic -nodefaults \
+-monitor unix:/tmp/test-monitor,server,nowait -boot d -usb \
+-drive \
+file=https://host.name:443/url/path/file.iso,if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0 \
+-device ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 \
+-device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-cdrom-network-https.xml b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-cdrom-network-https.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b8a60eddf3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-cdrom-network-https.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+
+ QEMUGuest1
+ c7a5fdbd-edaf-9455-926a-d65c16db1809
+ 1048576
+ 1048576
+ 1
+
+ hvm
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ destroy
+ restart
+ restart
+
+ /usr/bin/kvm
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c b/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
index fdf1d3147d..a11c9a8812 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
@@ -445,6 +445,8 @@ mymain(void)
DO_TEST("disk-cdrom", NONE);
DO_TEST("disk-cdrom-network-http", QEMU_CAPS_KVM, QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE,
QEMU_CAPS_DRIVE);
+ DO_TEST("disk-cdrom-network-https", QEMU_CAPS_KVM, QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE,
+ QEMU_CAPS_DRIVE);
DO_TEST("disk-cdrom-network-ftp", QEMU_CAPS_KVM, QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE,
QEMU_CAPS_DRIVE);
DO_TEST("disk-cdrom-empty", QEMU_CAPS_DRIVE);