Add cartoon fish logo (not completed).

[libguestfs.git] / TODO

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@@ -364,13 +364,66 @@ parsing code, eg:
 % is better than $ because of shell escaping and confusion with shell
 variables.
 
+Can we combine this with ability to set and read environment
+variables?  Currently guestfish uses many environment variables like
+$EDITOR without any corresponding ability to set them.
+
+ set EDITOR /usr/bin/emacs
+ echo $EDITOR  # or %{EDITOR}
+ edit /etc/resolv.conf
+
 live CD inspection
 ------------------
 
-guestfish -i livecd.iso
+ 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
+
+Windows 7 install CDs are quite different and pretty impenetrable.
+There are no obvious files to parse.
+
 More ntfs tools
 ---------------
 
@@ -401,3 +454,18 @@ More mkfs_opts options
 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.