X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=2209619a47bad3b52f106b95e0fe7f8db693ceb1;hp=13d2cfa8c70001dd6ef46ce78c7d9b5e92c3c376;hb=bda6cf75f259992bcba23c3c4c2339c50552f491;hpb=fc50bf2680d4ed653ff00d390cd7a17ebeb22cf2 diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 13d2cfa..2209619 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -17,15 +17,6 @@ IDs and the host. It's not easy to automate this because you need extra details about the guest itself in order to get to its UID->username map (eg. /etc/passwd from the guest). -BufferIn --------- - -BufferIn should turn into 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 - febootstrap / debootstrap inside appliance ------------------------------------------ @@ -94,23 +85,6 @@ 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 --------------------------------- @@ -229,16 +203,6 @@ 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? - virt-rescue pty --------------- @@ -249,25 +213,12 @@ 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 ----------------- - -Pass TERM from the library, through the kernel command line, to the -init script. - Windows-based daemon/appliance ------------------------------ See discussion on list: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2009-November/msg00165.html -virt-grow, virt-shrink ----------------------- - -Grow and shrink existing guests. The main problem comes with -MBR-style partitions where you have to actually copy data around the -disk (unless you only want to change the final partition). - qemu locking ------------ @@ -288,4 +239,55 @@ 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. \ No newline at end of file +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). + +Map filesystems to disk blocks +------------------------------ + +Map files/filesystems/(any other object) to the actual disk +blocks they occupy. + +And vice versa. + +Is it even possible? + +Integration with host intrusion systems +--------------------------------------- + +Perfect way to monitor VMs from outside the VM. Look for file +hashes, log events, login/logout etc. + +http://www.ossec.net/ +http://la-samhna.de/samhain/ +http://sourceforge.net/projects/aide/ +http://osiris.shmoo.com/ +http://sourceforge.net/projects/tripwire/ + +Resizing, shrinking, specifying sizes in guestfish +-------------------------------------------------- + +Owing to an oversight we don't really supporting shrinking +filesystems. See: + +https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585221 +https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585222 +https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585223 + +But a related problem is how to specify sizes to guestfish, ie. "100M" +or "1G". Currently the specific alloc and sparse functions contain +code to parse these size strings, but that cannot be used anywhere +else that would take a byte count. This is awkward because some +commands take units of megabytes (lvresize, sfdiskM) or sectors +(part-add), with no unifying theme.