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-live CD inspection
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-
- virt-inspector livecd.iso
-
-Could this be done through the core API and existing calls?
-
-There is a soft requirement for this in virt-manager, where it would
-be nice to be able to prepopulate the operating system hints based on
-what sort of ISO the user is trying to install from.
-
-Several sorts of CDs:
-
- - live CD
- - install-only CD
- - network install CD
- - supplemental CDs with additional packages but not bootable
- on its own
-
-Some CDs are formatted as ISO9660 and larger ones as UDF (DVD format),
-but they all are unpartitioned.
-
-Bootable Linux CDs have an /isolinux directory.
-
-Bootable EFI CDs have an /EFI/BOOT directory.
-
-Fedora live CDs have /images/install.img which is a squashfs
-containing an ext4 root. We could consider mounting this and
-inspecting it separately, but it would be simple to get everything we
-need from other files in the CD directory.
-
-More recent Fedora install DVD has /.discinfo and /.treeinfo with some
-easy to parse information in it.
-
-Debian and Ubuntu CDs have a /.disk/info file which is the product
-string. There are other interesting files in /.disk. They also have
-a characteristic directory structure (eg. /dists, /pool/main) which
-looks like a Debian archive.
-
-Windows 2003 install CDs have some characteristic stamp files in the
-root directory, like: /win51 /win51ia /win51ia.sp2. The main
-installation files (CAB files) are in /i386 directory. The following
-files contain a lot of interesting information:
-
- /i386/hivesft.inf
- /i386/layout.inf
- /i386/sis.inf
- /i386/txtsetup.sif
+live CD inspection for Windows 7
+--------------------------------
Windows 7 install CDs are quite different and pretty impenetrable.
There are no obvious files to parse.
ntfs streams: extract alternate streams from NTFS files
+ntfsck: checker for NTFS filesystems
+
Undelete files
--------------
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.
+
+guestfish drive letters
+-----------------------
+
+There should be an option to mount all Windows drives as separate
+paths, like C: => /c/, D: => /d/ etc.
+
+More inspection features
+------------------------
+
+- last shutdown time
+- DHCP address
+- last time the software was updated
+- last user who logged in
+- lastlog, last, who
+
+Get the guest icon
+------------------
+
+- For Linux guests, use /etc/favicon.png if available, else get it in
+ a distro-specific manner.
+- For Windows guests, parse it out of c:\windows\explorer.exe
+
+Integrate event log parsing more closely
+----------------------------------------
+
+https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/decoding-the-windows-event-log-using-guestfish/
+
+We should at least make sure the tools are packaged up for Fedora. We
+could document formally how to do event log parsing. Also the above
+only works for Windows Vista and later (since the log format changed),
+so we could extend this to work for earlier versions.
+
+Integrate virt-inspector with CMDBs
+-----------------------------------
+
+Either integrate virt-inspector with Configuration Management
+Databases (CMDBs) or at least check that virt-inspector produces the
+right range of data so that integration would be possible. The
+standards for CMDBs come from the DMTF, see eg:
+
+http://dmtf.org/news/pr/2009/7/dmtf-releases-cmdbf-standard-federating-configuration-management-data
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