New APIs: Support for creating LUKS and managing keys.

[libguestfs.git] / TODO

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@@ -323,6 +323,15 @@ 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?
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@@ -340,3 +349,21 @@ How can we solve these common user problems?
   In guestfish, specified -m non-existent filesystem.  We could suggest
   a list of filesystems, or suggest they run the virt-list-filesystems
   command.
+
+Progress of long-running operations
+-----------------------------------
+
+For example, copying in virt-resize.  How can we display the progress
+of these operations?  This is a basic usability requirement, and
+frequently requested.
+
+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:
+
+  - An easier way to use this from guestfish.
+  - Direct access to the /dev/mapper device (eg. if it contains
+    anything apart from VGs).