X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=233ac3c452c6df9648186d21d8a37d88e89109d0;hp=0d429c9e418259250836a65a4bfdaad05eac6cb6;hb=46551d9c51193a4bca2e1b249b8c5f111e1dc7b5;hpb=62c11fb60ef722c77215357a14465b44b5c7402f diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 0d429c9..233ac3c 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -23,3 +23,95 @@ Limit on transfers would still be 2MB for these types. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Implement febootstrap command. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Complete the Haskell bindings (see discussion on haskell-cafe). + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Complete the bindings tests - must test the return values and +error cases. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +For virt-inspector: + + - Make a libvirt XML config + + - Test over available OSes + + - Add 'reged' / NT registry support. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Use virtio_blk by default. It's faster and more natural. +Unfortunately it seems like this will rename all devices - see next +item. + +Note: virtio_blk *IS* supported by all our minimum platforms, +ie. CentOS 5.3, Fedora 11, Debian. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +"Standalone/local mode" + +Instead of running guestfsd (the daemon) inside qemu, there should be +an option to just run guestfsd directly. + +The architecture in this mode would look like: + + +------------------+ + | main program | + |------------------| + | libguestfs | + +--------^---------+ + | | reply + cmd | | + +----v-------------+ + | guestfsd | + +------------------+ + +Notes: + +(1) This only makes sense if we are running as root. + +(2) There is no console / kernel messages in this configuration, but +we might consider capturing stderr from the daemon. + +(3) guestfs_config and guestfs_add_drive become no-ops. + +Obviously in this configuration, commands are run directly on the +local machine's disks. You could just run the commands themselves +directly, but libguestfs provides a convenient API and language +bindings. Also deals with tricky stuff like parsing the output of the +LVM commands. Also we get to leverage other code such as +virt-inspector. + +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: + + 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 should be moved into febootstrap. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +guestfish -i (runs inspector)