X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=e9716f23d4ce1edbc787bd17467c52d9ce0ecbe4;hp=306f222991b77b0d30373a050837cabb4720ec20;hb=ed74706d80394fef709ec0258fc5cf7d974ff8b1;hpb=7c87dd1cf9cd14f753a2020425a5c20ba262f51b diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 306f222..e9716f2 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -347,14 +347,7 @@ 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. - - Related to the above: There should be an API call to list all - mountable / accessible devices. Or a guestfish command to replace - list-devices, list-partitions, lvs, vfs-type. +[space for common problems here] Better support for encrypted devices ------------------------------------ @@ -371,3 +364,44 @@ 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 +------------------ + +guestfs_add_domain (g, "libvirt-dom"); + +However this would need to not depend on libvirt, eg. loading it +on demand.