From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wei Liu Subject: Re: 9p file system for xen Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 15:16:58 +0000 Message-ID: <20151116151658.GA22829@citrix.com> References: <56461C8A.4080401@jma3.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56461C8A.4080401@jma3.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Linda Cc: Julien Grall , Wei Liu , xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Hi Linda On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 10:23:22AM -0700, Linda wrote: > Hello, > I worked this summer as an intern under Julien Grall and Wei Liu. My > project was to develop a prototype/proof of concept xen front/back end for > the 9p file system. I mostly hacked the virtio 9p system. > This project was not complete, at the end of the summer. Julien said > that you all wanted to include this in the next release of xen in January, > and offered to take it over. I told Julien I wanted to continue working on > it, which I have been doing, very much in the background. > I came upon a bug in my code recently that made me aware that I am not > clear what the expectation for what I deliver should be: i.e., whether it's > still a prototype, or whether this should be production software. > Right now, I do not modify the toolstack (I never learned how), but > rather start and pause my guest, and then modify xenstore, manually. I can > fix my bug in the same manner, but this will limit the usefulness of what I > deliver. To do more will hit up against the limitations of my time and > knowledge. > So please let me know what you're expecting, especially wrt the user > interface, and when I would need to complete everything for this release. > If I interpret this correctly, you have a prototype that's working? Do you have your code somewhere? I think we would still like to include it in next release if possible -- that would require a properly implemented solution, not just a prototype. Let's assess the current situation and then decide what to do next. Wei. > Thank you. > > Linda Jacobson > > > >