X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=5275415fc8d0be011fbb4045ed24228abfb2536a;hp=97dc3013a75660b73c779ef398832986f21c82ba;hb=d72a617a262e000ce7bc97838ad1f0d640dc66ec;hpb=6a87e0af24e957398ddae7db3c37da5d23f6686c diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 97dc301..5275415 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -347,10 +347,7 @@ Common problems How can we solve these common user problems? -- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/374931.html - In guestfish, specified -m non-existent filesystem. We could suggest - a list of filesystems, or suggest they run the virt-list-filesystems - command. +[space for common problems here] Better support for encrypted devices ------------------------------------ @@ -363,22 +360,25 @@ We would like to add: - Direct access to the /dev/mapper device (eg. if it contains anything apart from VGs). -Recursive upload / download of multiple files ---------------------------------------------- +Display image as PS +------------------- + +Display the structure of an image file as a PS. -virt-tar is really clumsy to use, and upload/download in guestfish can -only do single files. tar-in in guestfish can upload multiple files, -but only if you have prepared a tarball in advance. +Greater use of blkid / libblkid +------------------------------- -What we really need is a method which is as easy to use as 'scp' and -'scp -r'. +guestfs_zero should use wipefs. See wipefs(8). -Can we add this as a command in guestfish? This will be more useful -since users will already need to be in guestfish in order to create -target directories, review what they've done etc. It could be a meta- -command such as: +There are various useful functions in libblkid for listing partitions, +devices etc which we are essentially duplicating in the daemon. It +would make more sense to just use libblkid for this. - copy-in-recursive localdir remotedir - copy-out-recursive remotedir localdir +There are some places where we call out to the 'blkid' program. This +might be replaced by direct use of the library (if this is easier). + +Remove repo from appliance name +------------------------------- -which would hide use of tgz-in etc. +There's no need to have the appliance name contain the repository name +(ie initramfs.x86_64.img instead of initramfs.fedora-13.x86_64.img).