Fix networking in the appliance.

[libguestfs.git] / TODO

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@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ Haskell bindings
 
 Complete the Haskell bindings (see discussion on haskell-cafe).
 
 
 Complete the Haskell bindings (see discussion on haskell-cafe).
 

+PHP bindings
+------------
+
+Add bindtests to PHP bindings.
+

 Complete bind tests
 -------------------
 
 Complete bind tests
 -------------------
 


@@ -85,11 +90,6 @@ This is mainly useful from live CDs, ie. virt-p2v.
 Should we bother having the daemon at all and just link the guestfsd
 code directly into libguestfs?
 
 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
 ------------------------
 
 Ideas for extra commands
 ------------------------
 


@@ -279,8 +279,7 @@ http://sourceforge.net/projects/tripwire/
 -N option should be generated
 -----------------------------
 
 -N option should be generated
 -----------------------------
 

-'-N' option should be generated code, and should generate
-documentation in guestfish(1) manpage.
+'-N' option should generate documentation in guestfish(1) manpage.

 
 Fix 'file'
 ----------
 
 Fix 'file'
 ----------


@@ -295,6 +294,9 @@ 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.
 
 add a regression test for it.  However this is hard because we'd need
 to avoid having to carry huge images.
 

+Update: I managed to fit a real-but-minimal Fedora 13 image into 6.2 MB.
+See: http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/tip-pack-files-into-a-new-disk-image/#content
+

 Freeze/thaw filesystems
 -----------------------
 
 Freeze/thaw filesystems
 -----------------------
 


@@ -323,6 +325,15 @@ New guestfish commands
 
 'list-filesystems' => list mountable filesystems
 
 
 '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?
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 Could we make guestfish interactive if commands are used without params?
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 


@@ -336,7 +347,61 @@ Common problems
 
 How can we solve these common user problems?
 
 
 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:
+
+  - An easier way to use this from guestfish.
+  - 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).
+
+Remove repo from appliance name
+-------------------------------
+
+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).
+
+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.
+
+Virt-df UUID
+------------
+
+Virt-df and any other tools with --csv output should be able to print
+UUID of domain.  This allows you to track the real domain across
+renames etc.
+
+Add-domain command
+------------------
+
+guestfs_add_domain (g, "libvirt-dom");
+
+However this would need to not depend on libvirt, eg. loading it
+on demand.