From: Richard W.M. Jones Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:46:26 +0000 (+0100) Subject: todo: Remove obsolete items from TODO file. X-Git-Tag: 1.5.24~4 X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=6590e04bdcc3038312cb0a5f5545f1f0924907b2 todo: Remove obsolete items from TODO file. --- diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 6ab6dc6..0f933fa 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -17,13 +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). -febootstrap / debootstrap inside appliance ------------------------------------------- - -This was originally proposed as a way to install new operating systems -in the appliance. However no one has come up with a workable -solution. - Haskell bindings ---------------- @@ -241,18 +234,6 @@ 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. -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 ------------------------------ @@ -263,6 +244,8 @@ And vice versa. Is it even possible? +See also contribs/visualize-alignment/ + Integration with host intrusion systems --------------------------------------- @@ -275,11 +258,6 @@ http://sourceforge.net/projects/aide/ http://osiris.shmoo.com/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/tripwire/ --N option should be generated ------------------------------ - -'-N' option should generate documentation in guestfish(1) manpage. - Fix 'file' ---------- @@ -319,20 +297,6 @@ Tip: Use 'mount fs /' to mount a filesystem. 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? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -376,12 +340,6 @@ 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 ------------- @@ -390,13 +348,6 @@ 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 ------------------