X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=413312227c004140f5f3ef258bd5342b569c3ff9;hp=ad9e6e9b37ab344b7bd57f5248c98cbeb79a1f11;hb=4c54721ad46b77c52eb6bb7e3ffe74325ac52797;hpb=65acb799d2c94e6628f647f2319eb8d16f29a0d5 diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index ad9e6e9..4133122 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 @@ -126,3 +111,68 @@ PPC problems: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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