extra details about the guest itself in order to get to its
UID->username map (eg. /etc/passwd from the guest).
-febootstrap / debootstrap inside appliance
-------------------------------------------
-
-This was originally proposed as a way to install new operating systems
-in the appliance. However no one has come up with a workable
-solution.
-
Haskell bindings
----------------
Complete the Haskell bindings (see discussion on haskell-cafe).
+PHP bindings
+------------
+
+Add bindtests to PHP bindings.
+
Complete bind tests
-------------------
Should we bother having the daemon at all and just link the guestfsd
code directly into libguestfs?
-Supermin appliance to febootstrap
----------------------------------
-
-Supermin appliance functionality should be moved into febootstrap.
-
Ideas for extra commands
------------------------
findfs
logsave
mklost+found
- ext2undelete
SELinux:
chcat
which is equivalent to the following sequence of calls:
$h = Sys::Guestfs->new ();
- $h->set_autosync (1);
$h->add_drive_ro ($filename);
$h->launch ();
$h->mount_ro (\"/dev/sda1\", \"/\");
How would editing files work?
-ntfsclone
----------
-
-Useful imaging tool:
-http://man.linux-ntfs.org/ntfsclone.8.html
-
virt-rescue pty
---------------
Note that pty requires cooperation inside the C code too (there are
two sides to a pty, and one has to be handled after the fork).
+[I tried to implement this in the new C virt-rescue, but it doesn't
+work. qemu is implementing its own ptys, and they are broken. Need
+to fix qemu.]
+
Windows-based daemon/appliance
------------------------------
One would have to download those to the host and launch another
libguestfs instance.
-List, mount filesystems by UUID and label
------------------------------------------
-
-[See related:
-http://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2009-August/msg00031.html]
-
-List filesystems by UUID or label.
-
-Mount filesystems by UUID or label. (I'm not really sure if we can do
-this at the moment but we ought to be able to do it, and perhaps make
-it easier by having a direct command).
+[Not sure this is such a good idea. See also live CD inspection idea below.]
Map filesystems to disk blocks
------------------------------
Is it even possible?
+See also contribs/visualize-alignment/
+
Integration with host intrusion systems
---------------------------------------
http://osiris.shmoo.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tripwire/
--N option should be generated
------------------------------
-
-'-N' option should be generated code, and should generate
-documentation in guestfish(1) manpage.
-
Fix 'file'
----------
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-June/msg00053.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-June/msg00079.html
+
+Freeze/thaw filesystems
+-----------------------
+
+Access to these ioctls:
+http://git.kernel.org/linus/fcccf502540e3d7
+
+Tips for new users in guestfish
+-------------------------------
+
+$ guestfish
+Tip: You need to 'add disk.img' or 'alloc disk.img nn' to make a new image.
+Type 'notips' to disable tips permanently.
+><fs> add mydisk
+Tip: You need to type 'run' before you can see into the disk image.
+><fs> run
+Tip: Use 'list-filesystems' to see what filesystems are available.
+><fs> list-filesystems
+/dev/vda1
+Tip: Use 'mount fs /' to mount a filesystem.
+><fs> mount /dev/vda1 /
+Tip: Use 'll /' to view the filesystem or ...
+><fs> ll /
+
+Could we make guestfish interactive if commands are used without params?
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+><fs> sparse
+[[Prints man page]]
+Image name? disk.img
+Size of image? 10M
+
+Common problems
+---------------
+
+How can we solve these common user problems?
+
+[space for common problems here]
+
+Better support for encrypted devices
+------------------------------------
+
+Currently LUKS support only works if the device contains volume
+groups. If it contains, eg., partitions, you cannot access them.
+We would like to add:
+
+ - Direct access to the /dev/mapper device (eg. if it contains
+ anything apart from VGs).
+
+Display image as PS
+-------------------
+
+Display the structure of an image file as a PS.
+
+Greater use of blkid / libblkid
+-------------------------------
+
+guestfs_zero should use wipefs. See wipefs(8).
+
+There are various useful functions in libblkid for listing partitions,
+devices etc which we are essentially duplicating in the daemon. It
+would make more sense to just use libblkid for this.
+
+There are some places where we call out to the 'blkid' program. This
+might be replaced by direct use of the library (if this is easier).
+
+Visualization
+-------------
+
+Eric Sandeen pointed out the blktrace tool which is a better way of
+capturing traces than using patched qemu (see
+contrib/visualize-alignment). We would still use the same
+visualization tools in conjunction with blktrace traces.
+
+guestfish parsing
+-----------------
+
+At the moment guestfish uses an ad hoc parser which has many
+shortcomings. We should change to using a lex/yacc-based scanner and
+parser (there are better parsers out there, but yacc is sufficient and
+very widely available).
+
+The scanner must deal with the case of parsing a whole command string,
+eg. for a command that the user types in:
+
+ ><fs> add-drive-opts "/tmp/foo" readonly:true
+
+and also with parsing single words from the command line:
+
+ guestfish add-drive-opts /tmp/foo readonly:true
+
+Note the quotes are for scanning and don't indicate types.
+
+We should also allow variables and expressions as part of this new
+parsing code, eg:
+
+ set roots inspect-os
+ set product inspect-get-product-name %{roots[0]}
+
+% is better than $ because of shell escaping and confusion with shell
+variables.
+
+Can we combine this with ability to set and read environment
+variables? Currently guestfish uses many environment variables like
+$EDITOR without any corresponding ability to set them.
+
+ set EDITOR /usr/bin/emacs
+ echo $EDITOR # or %{EDITOR}
+ edit /etc/resolv.conf
+
+live CD inspection for Windows 7
+--------------------------------
+
+Windows 7 install CDs are quite different and pretty impenetrable.
+There are no obvious files to parse.
+
+More ntfs tools
+---------------
+
+ntfsprogs actually has a lot more useful tools than we currently
+use. Interesting ones are:
+
+ntfslabel: display or change filesystem label (we should unify all
+ set*label APIs into a single set_vfs_label which can deal with any
+ filesystem)
+
+ntfsclone: clone, image, restore, rescue NTFS
+
+ntfsinfo: print various information about NTFS volume and files
+
+ntfs streams: extract alternate streams from NTFS files
+
+Undelete files
+--------------
+
+Two useful tools:
+
+ - ext2undelete
+ - ntfsundelete
+
+More mkfs_opts options
+----------------------
+
+Useful options to offer:
+ - Set label.
+ - Set UUID.
+
+Use /proc/self/mountinfo
+------------------------
+
+This file contains lots of interesting information about
+what is mounted and where. eg:
+
+ 16 21 0:3 / /proc rw,relatime - proc /proc rw
+ 17 21 0:16 / /sys rw,relatime - sysfs /sys rw,seclabel
+ 18 23 0:5 / /dev rw,relatime - devtmpfs udev rw,seclabel,size=1906740k,nr_inodes=476685,mode=755
+ 26 21 253:3 / /home rw,relatime - ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-lv_home rw,seclabel,barrier=1,data=ordered
+
+This could be used instead of current hairy code to parse the output
+of the 'mount' command. We could add new APIs to return kernel mount
+options, type of filesystem at a mountpoint etc.
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