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TODO
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See KNOWN_BUGS for real bugs.
Bugs to fix and features to add for 5.0
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* xen-create-image man page overhaul:
- ambiguous option list with regards to parameters
- Set Fail in more situations where the script has clearly failed
i.e.: lvm exists
* Test and support more file system types.
Actually this should be pretty simple now that the parameters are
stored in the configuration hash.
* Setup locales in the hooks?
Currently no locales are set and this causes several domU errors
which appear in the domU's logs.
* Documentation overhaul
Better explain what roles /should be/ used for, and that roles
are examples, and shouldn't cover every single scenario. They
are also easy to write.
* xen-create-image --dist=... / sources.list generation should be more fine-grained
xen-tools should offer the possibility to enable/disable
security/volatile/backports as well as
contrib/non-free/universe/restricted/multiverse for each of them
not only based on defaults plus the Dom0's sources.list
One idea is to allow parameters like
--dist="lenny:main,contrib,non-free;security;volatile:main"
and maybe (if the default will be to include security) to also
allow
--dist="lenny;no-security"
The second idea (by Mathieu Parent) is to have an
/etc/xen-tools/sources.list.d/ which then contains files like
lenny.list, lenny-server.list, karmic.list, etc. which defaults to
$dist.list, but can be also select with --sources-list=lenny-server
(which looks for ./lenny-server.list, ./lenny-server,
/etc/xen-tools/sources.list.d/lenny-server.list and
/etc/xen-tools/sources.list.d/lenny-server in that order).
Third variant is to use /etc/xen-tools/sources.lists/ instead of
/etc/xen-tools/sources.list.d/ because that directory is no
runparts-like directory.
* LVM snapshot support as an install source.
* Clean up mounts on Ctrl-C, causes error while installing otherwise:
Removing /dev/vg0/acromantula-domu1-disk - since we're forcing the
install Can't remove open logical volume "acromantula-domu1-disk"
this should be a matter of unmounting the mounted volume from /tmp.
* Generic grub support
This will generate a much nicer menu.lst as a side effect, as its
currently generated once at install, and is never updated. Installing
a full grub into the domU should update the menu.lst every time a
new kernel is installed and will also use the domU distro's menu.lst
conform.
* pv-grub support
This is a ways away and will probably start with a xen-pv-grub
package.
* Move the hooks directory to /etc/xen-tools/ to officially allow
added and modified hooks.
* Clean up the hooks directory
Currently we have one directory for Ubuntu and Fedora named after
the first supported release which is then duplicated for each
subsequent release.
I'm sure this won't scale forever. So to minimise code duplication
I'd like to have one common directory per distribution (e.g. called
ubuntu-common, fedora-common, debian-common, maybe even deb-common,
rpm-common or yum-common for dpkg/apt-, rpm/yum-based
distributions, etc.) with generic hooks valid for all or most of
the releases of one distribution and then one hook directory per
release (e.g. called ubuntu-10.04 or ubuntu-lucid or so) which has
symbolic links to everything which can be used unchanged from the
common directory and new files for everything which has to be
different or only there.
* Create users, add ssh pubkeys to .ssh/authorized_keys
Still have to think of a good way of doing this. It would be nice
To specify a directory of public keys, parsing the hostnames
parsing the usernames from the ssh comment line
* More generic roles
Deploy a web server or setup ssmtp directly via flag when setting up
the machine. Open to suggestions, should just be some general use-cases
that are fairly common.
* Sections for the xen-tools.conf file
Currently it's really annoying when you are trying to create VMs
on multiple subnets. It would be nice to specify with a flag what
"type" of configuration you want, and a set of options specific to
that flag could be parsed from xen-tools.conf
* Refactor the code for less code duplication
Like e.g. readConfigurationFile in xen-create-image and
xen-resize-image which are not completely identical.
* Refactor the code for less variants of calling cp, rm, mv, etc.
E.g. always use either cp() from File::Copy or /bin/cp, but not
both. To allow verbose copying, I (Axel) would prefer /bin/cp over
cp();
* Parse numerical parameters transparently for the user
The user shouldn't have to know weather he should specify size
as <size>G or <size>Gb or <size>. This should be parsed without
user interaction and rely on a common format.
* xen-update-image should mount /dev/pts before running apt-get
* xen-update-image should have options for using ...
... aptitude instead of apt-get
... dist-upgrade instead of upgrade
* Use Perl::Critic
Stuff from Steve's TODO list / Generic TODOs
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* Write more test cases.
* xen-delete-image should unallocate any used IP addresses.