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@@ -14,11 +14,11 @@ http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=121684&package_id=150116
 
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-BufferIn and BufferOut should turn into <char *, int> and simple
-strings in other languages that can handle 8 bit clean strings.
+BufferIn should turn into <char *, int> and simple strings in other
+languages that can handle 8 bit clean strings.
+
 Limit on transfers would still be 2MB for these types.
  - then implement write-file properly
- - and implement read-file
 
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@@ -54,21 +54,6 @@ ie. CentOS 5.3, Fedora 11, Debian.
 
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-Qemu options -- After discussion with the KVM developers, they have
-recommended some flags which will improve the safety and reliability
-of KVM.  Need to test that these also work under qemu (or at least, do
-no harm):
-
--no-hpet      HPET support is broken and should be disabled.
-
--rtc-td-hack  Keeps the rtc clock source track time correctly.
-
--drive file=...,if=[ide|virtio],cache=off
-              cache=off is necessary to improve reliability in the
-	      event of a system crash when writing.
-
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-
 "Standalone/local mode"
 
 Instead of running guestfsd (the daemon) inside qemu, there should be
@@ -122,3 +107,94 @@ PPC problems:
 
   no serial console in ppc or ppc64 because no one can tell us what
   console=ttyXX option to use
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Supermin appliance should be moved into febootstrap.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Extra commands / functionality:
+
+  General glibc / core programs:
+    chgrp
+    grep (do it locally using pipe?)
+    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
+    realpath
+    trunc[ate??]
+
+  ext2 properties:
+    chattr
+    lsattr
+    badblocks
+    blkid
+    debugfs
+    dumpe2fs
+    e2image
+    e2undo
+    filefrag
+    findfs
+    logsave
+    mklost+found
+
+  SELinux:
+    chcat
+    restorecon
+    ch???
+
+  Oddball:
+    pivot_root
+    fts(3) / ftw(3)
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Allow swap space from the guest to be used.  Is it a good idea?
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Need a way to query a binary or library file for its architecture.
+Using objdump or readelf?
+What about non-ELF files (eg. Windows, BSD).
+
+To do this properly requires some serious logic, eg. to cover Linux
+and Windows we'd need objdump and i686-pc-mingw32-objdump, and more to
+cover a.out, COFF and 64 bit Windows.  Therefore this cannot be done
+inside the daemon, and should be done by a separate, external program
+similar to virt-inspector.
+
+Probably we should go all the way and have virt-inspector able to
+determine kernel and userspace architectures of guests.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Other initrd-* commands, such as:
+
+initrd-extract
+initrd-replace
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Some easy non-Augeas methods to edit configuration files.
+I'm thinking:
+
+  replace /etc/file key value
+
+which would look in /etc/file for any instances of
+
+  key=...
+  key ...
+  key:...
+
+and replace them with
+
+  key=value
+  key value
+  key:value
+
+That would solve about 50% of reconfiguration needs, and for the
+rest you'd use Augeas, 'download'+'upload' or 'edit'.