From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37432) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yb9Eh-0003bq-RQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 10:58:21 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yb9Ee-0002CG-Dq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 10:58:19 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-x22a.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c05::22a]:37478) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yb9Ee-0002C9-6l for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 10:58:16 -0400 Received: by wiaa2 with SMTP id a2so26368179wia.0 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 07:58:15 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <55141E82.6020302@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 15:58:10 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC] project proposal List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Catalin Vasile , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 18/03/2015 15:53, Catalin Vasile wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Catalin Vasile and I want to participate with a project for > qemu at GSoC. > From what I understand from the rules, I can participate with things I > could also use for my college projects. > This is my last bachelor year and I'm doing my diploma project, which is > related to virtualization, more specific qemu-kvm. > I'm trying to do a paravirtualized device using virtio and vhost. > I've already done some work. > To be more exact, I want to make a virtio-crypto device to emulate a > virtual cryptographic offloading device that will send jobs from the > guest to a vhost that will process the jobs. This mechanism will link > CryptoAPI from the guest to the CryptoAPI from the host. This way, > whatever it's beneath CryptoAPI from the host will be used as offloading > for the guest. > Is there a mentor interested in getting involved in this kind of project? Hi Catalin, what accelerator are you targeting specifically? Paolo