X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=d459ab89b4a3929e9df54fb12659631cafcd45f8;hb=f525e66fbfdceddb54b504c8bb57e9e5c8c76752;hp=981d67b4fed0019b879a9de3f50854147399367a;hpb=3d05963f9e0fd2229e04e0add391a4cbcdf8d86c;p=libguestfs.git diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 981d67b..d459ab8 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -6,12 +6,6 @@ to libguestfs in future. - RWMJ -Python bindings ---------------- - -Ideas for the Python bindings: -https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-April/msg00114.html - FUSE API -------- @@ -100,23 +94,6 @@ This is mainly useful from live CDs, ie. virt-p2v. Should we bother having the daemon at all and just link the guestfsd code directly into libguestfs? -PPC problems ------------- - -[This section should be filed as bugs, but no one seems to care for -PPC hosts and the hardware is rapidly becoming obsolete] - - ppc (32 bit) works with qemu from git, however there is no serial console - - ppc64 requires extra parameters: - -M mac99 -cpu ppc64 - however it still fails: - invalid/unsupported opcode: 01 - 01 - 1a (06301e83) 00000000018c2738 1 - invalid bits: 00400000 for opcode: 0b - 19 - 15 (2d746572) 0000000000009230 - - no serial console in ppc or ppc64 because no one can tell us what - console=ttyXX option to use - Supermin appliance to febootstrap --------------------------------- @@ -127,7 +104,6 @@ Ideas for extra commands General glibc / core programs: chgrp - dd (?) more mk*temp calls ext2 properties: @@ -281,4 +257,18 @@ qemu locking Add -drive file=...,lock=exclusive and -drive file=...,lock=shared Change libguestfs and libvirt to do the right thing, so that multiple -instances of qemu cannot stomp on each other. \ No newline at end of file +instances of qemu cannot stomp on each other. + +virt-disk-explore +----------------- + +For multi-level disk images such as live CDs: +http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/unpack-the-russian-doll-of-a-f11-live-cd/ + +It's possible with libguestfs to recursively look for anything that +might be a filesystem, mount-{,loop} it and look in those, revealing +anything in a disk image. + +However this won't work easily for VM disk images in the disk image. +One would have to download those to the host and launch another +libguestfs instance. \ No newline at end of file