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@@ -30,13 +30,72 @@ Complete the Haskell bindings (see discussion on haskell-cafe).
 
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-For virt-inspector:
+Complete the bindings tests - must test the return values and
+error cases.
 
- - Needs a "query mode", like "are (Xen|KVM) PV drivers installed?"
-   "does this guest need a Xen hypervisor?"
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
- - Are PV network drivers enabled (see /etc/modprobe.conf)
+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.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+"Device independent" naming for devices.
+
+With a Fedora-based appliance, using libata driver, devices have
+"SCSI" names like /dev/sda.
+
+With an EPEL-based appliance, using old ide driver, devices have names
+like /dev/hda.
+
+If we use virtio_blk, devices will have names like /dev/vda.
+
+What a mess.
+
+So the idea would be to add a device independent naming scheme, such
+as the one used by grub:
+
+  "(hdX)"   X = 0 means 'a', X = 1 means 'b' and so on.
+  "(hdX,Y)" Device X, partition Y (in grub, this counts from 0 which is
+            deeply confusing).
+
+There would have to be a very simple rule.  If guestfsd was expecting
+a /dev block device or partition name, then the alternate form can be
+used, and we would just look it up using the normal output of
+guestfs_list_devices.
+
+Maybe best is to use /dev/sda as the "standard" naming.  That
+shouldn't cause conflicts in the appliance because we tightly control
+what drivers are available.
+
+Note there's a lot of hackery that currently exists in tests.c which
+could be *removed* if we made this change.
+
+Open: Should the substitution be done in the library layer or in the
+daemon?
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+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.