todo docs: Feature for base64 uploads and scripts.

[libguestfs.git] / TODO

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@@ -6,12 +6,6 @@ to libguestfs in future.
 
    - RWMJ
 
-Python bindings
----------------
-
-Ideas for the Python bindings:
-https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-April/msg00114.html
-
 FUSE API
 --------
 
@@ -100,23 +94,6 @@ 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?
 
-PPC problems
-------------
-
-[This section should be filed as bugs, but no one seems to care for
-PPC hosts and the hardware is rapidly becoming obsolete]
-
-  ppc (32 bit) works with qemu from git, however there is no serial console
-
-  ppc64 requires extra parameters:
-    -M mac99 -cpu ppc64
-  however it still fails:
-    invalid/unsupported opcode: 01 - 01 - 1a (06301e83) 00000000018c2738 1
-    invalid bits: 00400000 for opcode: 0b - 19 - 15 (2d746572) 0000000000009230
-
-  no serial console in ppc or ppc64 because no one can tell us what
-  console=ttyXX option to use
-
 Supermin appliance to febootstrap
 ---------------------------------
 
@@ -127,7 +104,6 @@ Ideas for extra commands
 
   General glibc / core programs:
     chgrp
-    dd (?)
     more mk*temp calls
 
   ext2 properties:
@@ -256,8 +232,65 @@ http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=582185
 Note that pty requires cooperation inside the C code too (there are
 two sides to a pty, and one has to be handled after the fork).
 
-virt-rescue TERM
-----------------
+Windows-based daemon/appliance
+------------------------------
+
+See discussion on list:
+https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2009-November/msg00165.html
+
+qemu locking
+------------
+
+Add -drive file=...,lock=exclusive and -drive file=...,lock=shared
+
+Change libguestfs and libvirt to do the right thing, so that multiple
+instances of qemu cannot stomp on each other.
+
+virt-disk-explore
+-----------------
+
+For multi-level disk images such as live CDs:
+http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/unpack-the-russian-doll-of-a-f11-live-cd/
+
+It's possible with libguestfs to recursively look for anything that
+might be a filesystem, mount-{,loop} it and look in those, revealing
+anything in a disk image.
+
+However this won't work easily for VM disk images in the disk image.
+One would have to download those to the host and launch another
+libguestfs instance.
+
+List, mount filesystems by UUID and label
+-----------------------------------------
+
+[See related:
+http://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2009-August/msg00031.html]
+
+List filesystems by UUID or label.
+
+Mount filesystems by UUID or label.  (I'm not really sure if we can do
+this at the moment but we ought to be able to do it, and perhaps make
+it easier by having a direct command).
+
+UUencoded uploads
+-----------------
+
+(Or base64).  Something like:
+
+base64-in -<<EOF
+TWFuIGlzIGRpc3Rpbmd1aXNoZWQsIG5vdCBvbmx5IGJ5IGhpcyByZWFzb24sIGJ1dCBieSB0aGlz
+IHNpbmd1bGFyIHBhc3Npb24gZnJvbSBvdGhlciBhbmltYWxzLCB3aGljaCBpcyBhIGx1c3Qgb2Yg
+dGhlIG1pbmQsIHRoYXQgYnkgYSBwZXJzZXZlcmFuY2Ugb2YgZGVsaWdodCBpbiB0aGUgY29udGlu
+dWVkIGFuZCBpbmRlZmF0aWdhYmxlIGdlbmVyYXRpb24gb2Yga25vd2xlZGdlLCBleGNlZWRzIHRo
+ZSBzaG9ydCB2ZWhlbWVuY2Ugb2YgYW55IGNhcm5hbCBwbGVhc3VyZS4=
+EOF
+
+Arbitrary scripts
+-----------------
+
+debug-upload -<<EOF script
+#!/bin/sh -
+...
+EOF
 
-Pass TERM from the library, through the kernel command line, to the
-init script.
+debug sh ...