X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=7f694e73e588821d25e3ab3864a8699eed0a1fa0;hp=b06ae7120e2a39ddfebd93836613e72b4c2aae93;hb=4ea0abfce413767868a8f53b3d20e5d2f62dff08;hpb=7c285ea84f63e511f95a3c8bfbb98cbf99b9466b diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index b06ae71..7f694e7 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -17,15 +17,6 @@ IDs and the host. It's not easy to automate this because you need extra details about the guest itself in order to get to its UID->username map (eg. /etc/passwd from the guest). -BufferIn --------- - -BufferIn should turn into and simple strings in other -languages that can handle 8 bit clean strings. - -Limit on transfers would still be 2MB for these types. - - then implement write-file properly - febootstrap / debootstrap inside appliance ------------------------------------------ @@ -119,6 +110,7 @@ Ideas for extra commands findfs logsave mklost+found + ext2undelete SELinux: chcat @@ -284,19 +276,128 @@ http://sourceforge.net/projects/aide/ http://osiris.shmoo.com/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/tripwire/ -Resizing, shrinking, specifying sizes in guestfish --------------------------------------------------- +-N option should be generated +----------------------------- + +'-N' option should be generated code, and should generate +documentation in guestfish(1) manpage. + +Fix 'file' +---------- + +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. +> add mydisk +Tip: You need to type 'run' before you can see into the disk image. +> run +Tip: Use 'list-filesystems' to see what filesystems are available. +> list-filesystems +/dev/vda1 +Tip: Use 'mount fs /' to mount a filesystem. +> mount /dev/vda1 / +Tip: Use 'll /' to view the filesystem or ... +> 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? +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + +> 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 +--------------------------------------- -Owing to an oversight we don't really supporting shrinking -filesystems. See: +This would allow us to: -https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585221 -https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585222 -https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585223 +- use inspection from other languages +- get rid of inspector_generator +- don't use external virt-inspector process in guestfish -But a related problem is how to specify sizes to guestfish, ie. "100M" -or "1G". Currently the specific alloc and sparse functions contain -code to parse these size strings, but that cannot be used anywhere -else that would take a byte count. This is awkward because some -commands take units of megabytes (lvresize, sfdiskM) or sectors -(part-add), with no unifying theme. +See: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-July/msg00067.html