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
------------------------
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\", \"/\");
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
-Regression test on virt-inspector
----------------------------------
-
-Occasionally we break virt-inspector through some change. We should
-add a regression test for it. However this is hard because we'd need
-to avoid having to carry huge images.
-
Freeze/thaw filesystems
-----------------------
Tip: Use 'll /' to view the filesystem or ...
><fs> ll /
-New guestfish commands
-----------------------
-
-'list-filesystems' => list mountable filesystems
-
-We could implement this as a new API call, replacing a number of areas
-of the current code where this is done already (in virt-inspector and
-elsewhere). What we normally do to find out if a partition contains a
-mountable filesystem is to just blindly mount it, and see if that
-succeeds. However the kernel won't let us do this if the filesystem
-is already mounted somewhere, so a naive implementation of this in the
-daemon won't work. We would have to check if the partition was
-already mounted.
-
Could we make guestfish interactive if commands are used without params?
------------------------------------------------------------------------
How can we solve these common user problems?
-- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/374931.html
- In guestfish, specified -m non-existent filesystem. We could suggest
- a list of filesystems, or suggest they run the virt-list-filesystems
- command.
+[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.
+
+live CD inspection
+------------------
-Progress of long-running operations
------------------------------------
+guestfish -i livecd.iso
-For example, copying in virt-resize. How can we display the progress
-of these operations? This is a basic usability requirement, and
-frequently requested.
+Could this be done through the core API and existing calls?
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