X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=e9716f23d4ce1edbc787bd17467c52d9ce0ecbe4;hp=2b5821a3bd9a7907585b6f2689ef703edc13cb59;hb=204d54609b4b3e4ca637f0ce2fe98c33ce9d008b;hpb=478e1942a9fb4d86b0c4701b6b71f1eac376d0c1 diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 2b5821a..e9716f2 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ Haskell bindings Complete the Haskell bindings (see discussion on haskell-cafe). +PHP bindings +------------ + +Add bindtests to PHP bindings. + Complete bind tests ------------------- @@ -85,11 +90,6 @@ This is mainly useful from live CDs, ie. virt-p2v. Should we bother having the daemon at all and just link the guestfsd code directly into libguestfs? -Supermin appliance to febootstrap ---------------------------------- - -Supermin appliance functionality should be moved into febootstrap. - Ideas for extra commands ------------------------ @@ -276,19 +276,132 @@ 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 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. + +Update: I managed to fit a real-but-minimal Fedora 13 image into 6.2 MB. +See: http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/tip-pack-files-into-a-new-disk-image/#content + +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? + +[space for common problems here] -Owing to an oversight we don't really supporting shrinking -filesystems. See: +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). + +Display image as PS +------------------- + +Display the structure of an image file as a PS. + +Greater use of blkid / libblkid +------------------------------- + +guestfs_zero should use wipefs. See wipefs(8). + +There are various useful functions in libblkid for listing partitions, +devices etc which we are essentially duplicating in the daemon. It +would make more sense to just use libblkid for this. + +There are some places where we call out to the 'blkid' program. This +might be replaced by direct use of the library (if this is easier). + +Remove repo from appliance name +------------------------------- + +There's no need to have the appliance name contain the repository name +(ie initramfs.x86_64.img instead of initramfs.fedora-13.x86_64.img). + +Visualization +------------- + +Eric Sandeen pointed out the blktrace tool which is a better way of +capturing traces than using patched qemu (see +contrib/visualize-alignment). We would still use the same +visualization tools in conjunction with blktrace traces. + +Virt-df UUID +------------ + +Virt-df and any other tools with --csv output should be able to print +UUID of domain. This allows you to track the real domain across +renames etc. + +Add-domain command +------------------ -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 +guestfs_add_domain (g, "libvirt-dom"); -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. +However this would need to not depend on libvirt, eg. loading it +on demand.