Extra commands / functionality:
General glibc / core programs:
- wc
- head, tail
chgrp
grep (do it locally using pipe?)
dd (?)
- du
ln / ln -s
- mknod
readlink
utime / utimes / futimes / futimens / l..
- mkfifo
more mk*temp calls
readdir / readdir-and-stat
some sort of alloc/fallocate/posix_fallocate call to create empty space
realpath
trunc[ate??]
+ getfattr (also useful because gives us access to NTFS datastreams)
+ setfattr
ext2 properties:
chattr
pivot_root
fts(3) / ftw(3)
- guestfish only:
- more/less (like cat, but pipes it through $PAGER)
- cmd | pipe
- cat file | pipe-cmd should have a generic form? like
- 'file | less' or 'file | sort'?
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Allow swap space from the guest to be used. Is it a good idea?
+
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+Need a way to query a binary or library file for its architecture.
+Using objdump or readelf?
+What about non-ELF files (eg. Windows, BSD).
+
+To do this properly requires some serious logic, eg. to cover Linux
+and Windows we'd need objdump and i686-pc-mingw32-objdump, and more to
+cover a.out, COFF and 64 bit Windows. Therefore this cannot be done
+inside the daemon, and should be done by a separate, external program
+similar to virt-inspector.
+
+Probably we should go all the way and have virt-inspector able to
+determine kernel and userspace architectures of guests.
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+Other initrd-* commands, such as:
+
+initrd-extract
+initrd-replace