X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=5bce5d93a7a7446d4ecc8fb506ee7be9d6e226ce;hp=e90d408d45b933884dcfef009e4dc73b26fd15a5;hb=e7ee6eebed6ee3a5b56c0482ba2770e697d8febc;hpb=e832959a4d5645cb0168bd7b810d5cfcd6767168 diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index e90d408..5bce5d9 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -323,6 +323,15 @@ New guestfish commands 'list-filesystems' => list mountable filesystems +We could implement this as a new API call, replacing a number of areas +of the current code where this is done already (in virt-inspector and +elsewhere). What we normally do to find out if a partition contains a +mountable filesystem is to just blindly mount it, and see if that +succeeds. However the kernel won't let us do this if the filesystem +is already mounted somewhere, so a naive implementation of this in the +daemon won't work. We would have to check if the partition was +already mounted. + Could we make guestfish interactive if commands are used without params? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -340,3 +349,21 @@ How can we solve these common user problems? In guestfish, specified -m non-existent filesystem. We could suggest a list of filesystems, or suggest they run the virt-list-filesystems command. + +Progress of long-running operations +----------------------------------- + +For example, copying in virt-resize. How can we display the progress +of these operations? This is a basic usability requirement, and +frequently requested. + +Better support for encrypted devices +------------------------------------ + +Currently LUKS support only works if the device contains volume +groups. If it contains, eg., partitions, you cannot access them. +We would like to add: + + - An easier way to use this from guestfish. + - Direct access to the /dev/mapper device (eg. if it contains + anything apart from VGs).