X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=7a4c3675e46e57daf08c3246928ca63cf15df2a5;hp=7b217c4591fb87bd5527b30fdc3806a8a7bdb21c;hb=fa13b2838fd32854a4b2c6a5fff47e17a72294fb;hpb=0c133cf689ba4816ba6e9283c3f9ed7f06dc0a77 diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 7b217c4..7a4c367 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -441,13 +441,6 @@ More inspection features - last user who logged in - lastlog, last, who -Get the guest icon ------------------- - -- For Linux guests, use /etc/favicon.png if available, else get it in - a distro-specific manner. -- For Windows guests, parse it out of c:\windows\explorer.exe - Integrate virt-inspector with CMDBs ----------------------------------- @@ -497,3 +490,45 @@ Generated code would hide most of the implementation. We also need to think about security issues: is it possible for the daemon to keep sending back data forever, and if so what happens on the library side. + +[Users can now use virt-ls to solve some of these problems, but it is +not a general solution at the API level] + +Interactive disk creator +------------------------ + +An interactive disk creator program. + +Attach method for disconnected operation +---------------------------------------- + +http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#guestfs_set_attach_method + +"Librarian" has an idea that he should be able to attach to a regular +appliance, but disconnect from it and reconnect to it later. This +would be some sort of modified attach method (see link above). + +The complexity here is that we would no longer have access to +stdin/stdout (or we'd have to direct that somewhere else). + +GObject Introspection +--------------------- + +We periodically get asked to implement gobject-introspection (it's a +GNOME thing): + +http://live.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection + +This would require a separate Gtk C API since the main guestfs handle +would have to be encapsulated in a GObject. However the main +difficulty is that the annotations supported to define types are not +very rich. Notably missing are support for optional arguments +(defined but not implemented), support for structs (unless mapped to +other objects). + +Also note that the libguestfs API is not "object oriented". + +libosinfo mappings for virt-inspector +------------------------------------- + +Return libosinfo mappings from inspection API.