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@@ -6,24 +6,96 @@ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-April/msg00114.html
 We badly need to actually implement the FTP server mentioned in the
 documentation.
 
+Or: Implement a FUSE-based filesystem.  See the FUSE mountlo
+project which does something similar, albeit only to single
+filesystems:
+
+http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=121684&package_id=150116
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+BufferIn and BufferOut should turn into <char *, int> and simple
+strings in other languages that can handle 8 bit clean strings.
+Limit on transfers would still be 2MB for these types.
+ - then implement write-file properly
+ - and implement read-file
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Implement febootstrap command.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Complete the Haskell bindings (see discussion on haskell-cafe).
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Complete the bindings tests - must test the return values and
+error cases.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+For virt-inspector:
+
+ - Make a libvirt XML config
+
+ - Test over available OSes
+
+ - Add 'reged' / NT registry support.
+
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-(From Ján ONDREJ (SAL))
+Use virtio_blk by default.  It's faster and more natural.
+Unfortunately it seems like this will rename all devices - see next
+item.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+"Device independent" naming for devices.
+
+With a Fedora-based appliance, using libata driver, devices have
+"SCSI" names like /dev/sda.
 
-We should provide a way to stream partitions in and out.
+With an EPEL-based appliance, using old ide driver, devices have names
+like /dev/hda.
 
-Thus:
+If we use virtio_blk, devices will have names like /dev/vda.
 
-dd-out /dev/sda1 > [some file]
+What a mess.
+
+So the idea would be to add a device independent naming scheme, such
+as the one used by grub:
+
+  "(hdX)"   X = 0 means 'a', X = 1 means 'b' and so on.
+  "(hdX,Y)" Device X, partition Y (in grub, this counts from 0 which is
+            deeply confusing).
+
+There would have to be a very simple rule.  If guestfsd was expecting
+a /dev block device or partition name, then the alternate form can be
+used, and we would just look it up using the normal output of
+guestfs_list_devices.
+
+Maybe best is to use /dev/sda as the "standard" naming.  That
+shouldn't cause conflicts in the appliance because we tightly control
+what drivers are available.
+
+Note there's a lot of hackery that currently exists in tests.c which
+could be *removed* if we made this change.
+
+Open: Should the substitution be done in the library layer or in the
+daemon?
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-dd-in /dev/sda1 < [some file]
+Qemu options -- After discussion with the KVM developers, they have
+recommended some flags which will improve the safety and reliability
+of KVM.  Need to test that these also work under qemu (or at least, do
+no harm):
 
-Along with this, we need to be able to call the resize2fs program to
-resize the filesystem in case it is larger or smaller than the target
-partition.
+-no-hpet      HPET support is broken and should be disabled.
 
-Another useful feature would be to allow rsync to/from a stream for
-whole filesystems and subdirectories.
+-rtc-td-hack  Keeps the rtc clock source track time correctly.
 
-The current protocol is message-oriented and doesn't support
-streaming.  But it's simple enough that we could add this.
+-drive file=...,if=[ide|virtio],cache=off
+              cache=off is necessary to improve reliability in the
+	      event of a system crash when writing.