Re: Outreachy May-August, 2016

["Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>]

El 20/2/16 a les 1:35, Ayushi Arora ha escrit:
> Hello,
> I am Ayushi Arora from India. I am currently in my 2nd year of
> undergraduate study in Information Technology. I am really interested in
> working for FOSS community and I came across Outreachy Program a few days
> back. Researching about the past year's organizations and projects, I came
> across *XEN* and after reading about it for some days, chose it as the
> organization I want to apply to for Outreachy 2016.
> I am capable of working with C and have some knowledge about Computer
> Architecture, so the project idea that interests me most is -
> *Add PVH mode support to OVMF (UEFI)*
> I am really excited to start working on the project. I have installed Xen
> 4.4.2 on Ubuntu as a starting step.
> I would really like to get my bite-sized task so that I can start working
> on this project soon.

Hello,

Thanks for your interest. Your first step should be to build and install
Xen from source, we have a wiki page that contains detailed information
about how to do it:

http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Compiling_Xen_From_Source

Make sure you have OVMF support enabled when building Xen. Then you
should try to create a guest that uses OVMF (UEFI) as it's firmware. You
can probably use any Linux distro or BSD flavour that supports UEFI.

Since the project you have chosen involves quite a lot of low-level
stuff, you should also setup a serial console [0] in order to see the
messages from Xen. Those are shown at boot time and at run time, so it's
important to have this properly setup in order to debug issues.

Also, please use xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org (note that I've removed
the tailing -request in your original email) when sending emails to the
list.

Roger.

[0] http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Serial_Console