X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=b06ae7120e2a39ddfebd93836613e72b4c2aae93;hp=9eee3fe6704b8068bbd13b73d201ebeecea8ddc8;hb=4839d5142ca50818965866287932f9ded14729e6;hpb=398e6830a34e916c52cd23ba6d0b4c00602dfc61 diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 9eee3fe..b06ae71 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -212,16 +212,6 @@ ntfsclone Useful imaging tool: http://man.linux-ntfs.org/ntfsclone.8.html -Standard images ---------------- - -Equip guestfish with some standard images that it can load -quickly, eg: - - load ext2 - -Maybe it's better to create these on the fly? - virt-rescue pty --------------- @@ -238,13 +228,6 @@ Windows-based daemon/appliance See discussion on list: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2009-November/msg00165.html -virt-grow, virt-shrink ----------------------- - -Grow and shrink existing guests. The main problem comes with -MBR-style partitions where you have to actually copy data around the -disk (unless you only want to change the final partition). - qemu locking ------------ @@ -265,4 +248,55 @@ anything in a disk image. However this won't work easily for VM disk images in the disk image. One would have to download those to the host and launch another -libguestfs instance. \ No newline at end of file +libguestfs instance. + +List, mount filesystems by UUID and label +----------------------------------------- + +[See related: +http://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2009-August/msg00031.html] + +List filesystems by UUID or label. + +Mount filesystems by UUID or label. (I'm not really sure if we can do +this at the moment but we ought to be able to do it, and perhaps make +it easier by having a direct command). + +Map filesystems to disk blocks +------------------------------ + +Map files/filesystems/(any other object) to the actual disk +blocks they occupy. + +And vice versa. + +Is it even possible? + +Integration with host intrusion systems +--------------------------------------- + +Perfect way to monitor VMs from outside the VM. Look for file +hashes, log events, login/logout etc. + +http://www.ossec.net/ +http://la-samhna.de/samhain/ +http://sourceforge.net/projects/aide/ +http://osiris.shmoo.com/ +http://sourceforge.net/projects/tripwire/ + +Resizing, shrinking, specifying sizes in guestfish +-------------------------------------------------- + +Owing to an oversight we don't really supporting shrinking +filesystems. See: + +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 + +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.