X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=e9716f23d4ce1edbc787bd17467c52d9ce0ecbe4;hp=7737201764746d4371e9f3e976686f103bf0117b;hb=7d746ba6915e3c0d8fbe41053da64f4e9fa11cd4;hpb=b42d34be04e5b3cfb809bd3b41508812b522b1d9 diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 7737201..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 ------------------------ @@ -279,8 +279,7 @@ http://sourceforge.net/projects/tripwire/ -N option should be generated ----------------------------- -'-N' option should be generated code, and should generate -documentation in guestfish(1) manpage. +'-N' option should generate documentation in guestfish(1) manpage. Fix 'file' ---------- @@ -295,6 +294,9 @@ 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 ----------------------- @@ -345,20 +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. - -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. +[space for common problems here] Better support for encrypted devices ------------------------------------ @@ -371,22 +360,48 @@ We would like to add: - Direct access to the /dev/mapper device (eg. if it contains anything apart from VGs). -Recursive upload / download of multiple files ---------------------------------------------- +Display image as PS +------------------- + +Display the structure of an image file as a PS. -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. +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 +------------------------------- -What we really need is a method which is as easy to use as 'scp' and -'scp -r'. +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). -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: +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 +------------------ - copy-in-recursive localdir remotedir - copy-out-recursive remotedir localdir +guestfs_add_domain (g, "libvirt-dom"); -which would hide use of tgz-in etc. +However this would need to not depend on libvirt, eg. loading it +on demand.