X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=255cef892659b8f447d07b8aea41d94b868d62fd;hp=d0e93207264d5754aa36134aae499f4d6e953f0b;hb=17a45063960b4158fbe9541a2530ed6903b4f761;hpb=ff211d06eb5d1949d74011f9fa60b9f5915f8a05 diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index d0e9320..255cef8 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -54,21 +54,6 @@ ie. CentOS 5.3, Fedora 11, Debian. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -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. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - "Standalone/local mode" Instead of running guestfsd (the daemon) inside qemu, there should be @@ -107,3 +92,74 @@ 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. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Extra commands / functionality: + + General glibc / core programs: + chgrp + grep (do it locally using pipe?) + dd (?) + du + ln / ln -s + mknod + readlink + utime / utimes / futimes / futimens / l.. + mkfifo + more mk*temp calls + readdir / readdir-and-stat + 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) + + guestfish only: + more/less (like cat, but pipes it through $PAGER) + cat file | pipe-cmd should have a generic form? like + 'file | less' or 'file | sort'? + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Allow swap space from the guest to be used. Is it a good idea?