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 https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-June/msg00053.html
 https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-June/msg00079.html
+
+Regression test on virt-inspector
+---------------------------------
+
+Occasionally we break virt-inspector through some change.  We should
+add a regression test for it.  However this is hard because we'd need
+to avoid having to carry huge images.
+
+Freeze/thaw filesystems
+-----------------------
+
+Access to these ioctls:
+http://git.kernel.org/linus/fcccf502540e3d7
+
+Tips for new users in guestfish
+-------------------------------
+
+$ guestfish
+Tip: You need to 'add disk.img' or 'alloc disk.img nn' to make a new image.
+Type 'notips' to disable tips permanently.
+><fs> add mydisk
+Tip: You need to type 'run' before you can see into the disk image.
+><fs> run
+Tip: Use 'list-filesystems' to see what filesystems are available.
+><fs> list-filesystems
+/dev/vda1
+Tip: Use 'mount fs /' to mount a filesystem.
+><fs> mount /dev/vda1 /
+Tip: Use 'll /' to view the filesystem or ...
+><fs> ll /
+
+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?
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+><fs> sparse
+[[Prints man page]]
+Image name? disk.img
+Size of image? 10M
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+See: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-July/msg00003.html
+and follow-ups.
+
+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).
+
+Recursive upload / download of multiple files
+---------------------------------------------
+
+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.
+
+What we really need is a method which is as easy to use as 'scp' and
+'scp -r'.
+
+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:
+
+  copy-in-recursive localdir remotedir
+  copy-out-recursive remotedir localdir
+
+which would hide use of tgz-in etc.
+
+Sys::Guestfs::Lib / inspector code in C
+---------------------------------------
+
+This would allow us to:
+
+- use inspection from other languages
+- get rid of inspector_generator
+- don't use external virt-inspector process in guestfish
+
+See: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-July/msg00067.html