1 Roadmap for future releases
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6 (1) To see what's in the current release, read 'RELEASE-NOTES'.
8 (2) To see the list of bugs, read 'BUGS'.
10 (3) To understand libguestfs versioning, read section
11 'LIBGUESTFS VERSION NUMBERS' of guestfs(3) man page.
13 (4) For general "might be good to have" items, see 'TODO'.
15 For next major stable release (1.10)
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18 * Continue with general reduction in use of Perl. This is not because
19 we think Perl is a bad thing or anything like that, but because a
20 major consumer (RHEV) does not want to include the Perl interpreter
21 in the tiny hypervisor they ship, thus any tool written in or
22 requiring Perl cannot be used by RHEV. OCaml and other high-level
23 compiled languages are fine. For 1.8 we rewrote many tools in C.
25 * Make 'guestfish --ro' be the default, and get users to use
26 'guestfish --rw' for write access (but allow the default to be
27 overridden in a configuration file). This was originally planned
28 for 1.8 but there's not nearly enough adoption of the new 'guestfish
29 --rw' option out there to do this yet.
31 * Allow alternate methods to start the appliance, including through
32 libvirt and by connecting to an existing appliance. This was
33 originally planned for 1.8 but we didn't get patches in time.
35 * Deeper and wider support for progress messages. Many long-running
36 operations in guestfs-browser don't display progress messages, eg.
37 "du", "tar-in/out", because it's hard to estimate the runtime of
38 these commands. We should modify the protocol so that the library
39 can hint at when progress messages would be useful (there's no point
40 going to extra lengths to generate them if on the library side no
41 one is registered to listen to them), and modify the daemon to try
42 harder to generate them, even if they are only estimates. Also
43 GtkProgressBar supports a "pulse mode" where it indicates activity
44 with no time estimate, and we should try to support that as well.
46 * Better handling of partitions, including MBR extended partitions
47 (RHBZ#593511, RHBZ#602997, RHBZ#642821).
49 * Hot plugging of disks using QMP. This would allow more efficient
50 reuse of the appliance in some circumstances: multiple disks
51 (ie. VMs) can be added in turn to the same appliance. In particular
52 this would help virt-df.
54 Bugs assigned to 1.10 (put "1.10" in the Devel Whiteboard field in
57 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&field0-0-0=cf_devel_whiteboard&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=MODIFIED&bug_status=ON_DEV&bug_status=ON_QA&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=FAILS_QA&bug_status=RELEASE_PENDING&bug_status=POST&bug_status=PASSES_QA&type0-0-0=anywords&value0-0-0=1.10&component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization%20Tools&classification=Other
62 See TODO and BUGS files.