Fix non-srcdir builds: further fixes to OCaml build rules.

[libguestfs.git] / TODO

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@@ -54,21 +54,6 @@ ie. CentOS 5.3, Fedora 11, Debian.
 
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-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):
-
--no-hpet      HPET support is broken and should be disabled.
-
--rtc-td-hack  Keeps the rtc clock source track time correctly.
-
--drive file=...,if=[ide|virtio],cache=off
-              cache=off is necessary to improve reliability in the
-             event of a system crash when writing.
-
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-

 "Standalone/local mode"
 
 Instead of running guestfsd (the daemon) inside qemu, there should be
 "Standalone/local mode"
 
 Instead of running guestfsd (the daemon) inside qemu, there should be


@@ -107,3 +92,87 @@ 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?
 
 Should we bother having the daemon at all and just link the guestfsd
 code directly into libguestfs?

+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PPC problems:
+
+  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 should be moved into febootstrap.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Extra commands / functionality:
+
+  General glibc / core programs:
+    chgrp
+    grep (do it locally using pipe?)
+    dd (?)
+    ln / ln -s
+    readlink
+    utime / utimes / futimes / futimens / l..
+    more mk*temp calls
+    some sort of alloc/fallocate/posix_fallocate call to create empty space
+    realpath
+    trunc[ate??]
+
+  ext2 properties:
+    chattr
+    lsattr
+    badblocks
+    blkid
+    debugfs
+    dumpe2fs
+    e2image
+    e2undo
+    filefrag
+    findfs
+    logsave
+    mklost+found
+
+  SELinux:
+    chcat
+    restorecon
+    ch???
+
+  Oddball:
+    pivot_root
+    fts(3) / ftw(3)
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Allow swap space from the guest to be used.  Is it a good idea?
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+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.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Other initrd-* commands, such as:
+
+initrd-extract
+initrd-replace