How can we solve these common user problems?
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- 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
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- Direct access to the /dev/mapper device (eg. if it contains
anything apart from VGs).
-Recursive upload / download of multiple files
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-
-virt-tar is really clumsy to use, and upload/download in guestfish can
-only do single files. tar-in in guestfish can upload multiple files,
-but only if you have prepared a tarball in advance.
-
-What we really need is a method which is as easy to use as 'scp' and
-'scp -r'.
+Display image as PS
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-Can we add this as a command in guestfish? This will be more useful
-since users will already need to be in guestfish in order to create
-target directories, review what they've done etc. It could be a meta-
-command such as:
+Display the structure of an image file as a PS.
- copy-in-recursive localdir remotedir
- copy-out-recursive remotedir localdir
+Greater use of blkid / libblkid
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-which would hide use of tgz-in etc.
+guestfs_zero should use wipefs. See wipefs(8).
-Other thoughts on this:
+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.
-virt-cp or virt-rcp or virt-copy or virt-scp or ...?
+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).
-virt-copy *.c *.h GuestName:/tmp/
+Remove repo from appliance name
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-virt-copy -r dir/ GuestName:/tmp/
+There's no need to have the appliance name contain the repository name
+(ie initramfs.x86_64.img instead of initramfs.fedora-13.x86_64.img).
-virt-copy GuestName:/tmp/foo* .
+Visualization
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-virt-copy disk.img:/tmp/bar* otherdisk.img:/tmp
-( probably not because it requires multiple libguestfs connections)
+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.