X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=12b1ce6805f1781cf03b69a875ce0300b2205de8;hp=d4a93b8d4c11da0a5305004cfd65af951ff28268;hb=dcb5aa01835c2cc2310fd8427988a2f2af8924f9;hpb=7c3a90f94cd6b8fec9cdd1c052b91a14c0ee0e0e diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index d4a93b8..12b1ce6 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -145,11 +145,8 @@ Ideas for extra commands General glibc / core programs: chgrp dd (?) - ln / ln -s - readlink utime / utimes / futimes / futimens / l.. more mk*temp calls - some sort of alloc/fallocate/posix_fallocate call to create empty space trunc[ate??] ext2 properties: @@ -175,11 +172,6 @@ Ideas for extra commands pivot_root fts(3) / ftw(3) -Swap space ----------- - -Allow swap space from the guest to be used. Is it a good idea? - Other initrd-* commands ----------------------- @@ -222,7 +214,7 @@ Quick Perl scripts Currently we can't do Perl "one-liners". ie. The current syntax for any short Perl one-liner would be: - perl -MSys::Guestfs -e '$g = Sys::Guestfs->new(); $g->add_drive ("foo"); $g->launch; $g->wait_ready; $g->mount ("/dev/sda1", "/"); ....' + perl -MSys::Guestfs -e '$g = Sys::Guestfs->new(); $g->add_drive ("foo"); $g->launch; $g->mount ("/dev/sda1", "/"); ....' You can see we're well beyond a single line just getting to the point of adding drives and mounting. @@ -243,7 +235,6 @@ which is equivalent to the following sequence of calls: $h->set_autosync (1); $h->add_drive_ro ($filename); $h->launch (); - $h->wait_ready (); $h->mount_ro (\"/dev/sda1\", \"/\"); Command-line form would be: @@ -257,3 +248,19 @@ autogenerated module which creates a Sys::Guestfs handle singleton perl -MSys::Guestfs::One -e 'inspect("guest.img"); cat ("/etc/fstab");' How would editing files work? + +ntfsclone +--------- + +Useful imaging tool: +http://man.linux-ntfs.org/ntfsclone.8.html + +Standard images +--------------- + +Equip guestfish with some standard images that it can load +quickly, eg: + + load ext2 + +Maybe it's better to create these on the fly?