GSOC 2014 - Project Queries

GSOC 2014 - Project Queries

[Dushyant Behl]

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Hi All,

I'm very sorry if i mailed at the wrong mailing list.
I'm a master's computer science student very much enthusiastic about the
area of Virtualization and Hypervisors and I would like to be a part of the
Open Source community by taking part in the GSOC-2014 program with Xen. I
have looked at the Xen project ideas and i would be interested to work on
them, I am specifically curious about the projects -* Allowing guests to
boot with a passed-through GPU as the primary display. and VM Snapshots.*
I have started by looking into the xen architecture and it'd be great to
get some starting points or to get in touch with someone regarding the
project. Please help me by suggesting anything regarding the same.

Also I wanted to know if there's a different IRC channel for GSOC, I'm
available on the ##xen channel under the nick - *theVoodooChild*.

Looking forward to any reply.

Thanks,
Dushyant

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Re: GSOC 2014 - Project Queries

[George Dunlap]

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On 02/26/2014 11:35 PM, Dushyant Behl wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm very sorry if i mailed at the wrong mailing list.
> I'm a master's computer science student very much enthusiastic about 
> the area of Virtualization and Hypervisors and I would like to be a 
> part of the Open Source community by taking part in the GSOC-2014 
> program with Xen. I have looked at the Xen project ideas and i would 
> be interested to work on them, I am specifically curious about the 
> projects -* Allowing guests to boot with a passed-through GPU as the 
> primary display. and VM Snapshots.*
> I have started by looking into the xen architecture and it'd be great 
> to get some starting points or to get in touch with someone regarding 
> the project. Please help me by suggesting anything regarding the same.
>
> Also I wanted to know if there's a different IRC channel for GSOC, I'm 
> available on the ##xen channel under the nick - *theVoodooChild*.
>
> Looking forward to any reply.

Sorry for not getting back to you immediately -- did you have any 
particular questions regarding the projects?

  -George

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Re: GSOC 2014 - Project Queries

[Dushyant Behl]

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Hi George,

I have a few questions I would like to ask.

About - GPU Pass through Project

1. The first thing i want to ask was, what would be the scope of the
project. I mean what are the things which i should know before
    starting on the project. Is there any material which i should read or
some code which i need to understand fully before jumping into the project
itself.

2. One question about the project was that, when we say that currently the
guests are allowed to use VGA pass through using non-primary display.
    Do we mean that the guest requires multiple displays to use the passed
through GPU? or I'm missing something here?

3. What would be the setup required for the project. Do I need some
different hardware to work on? Also what would be the testing setup
    if i start something with the project.

4. What part of the code in Xen should I be targeting for this feature,
Also is there anything you want me to get my hands on before working on the
    project proposal for GSoC.

About - VM Snapshots Project.

I think the project is quiet clear after reading the details mentioned on
this link http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/GSoC_2013#vm-snapshots, but i don't know
whom to contact regarding the same.

I have worked on some kernel programming (for a tiny Operating system) and
also some assembly code hacking. Also I have read about hypervisors
but i want to understand and have a look at how things work in real world
projects and hence decided to look at Xen. I'd be happy to work on both of
the above
projects so, if there's any priority among the development of these
projects i'd be happy to work accordingly.

Lastly, If I need to ask anything, Can I ping you on IRC? I mostly hang out
on both the ##xen and #xen-opw channels on freenode.

Thanks,
Dushyant
#IRC - theVoodooChild


On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 7:42 PM, George Dunlap
<george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>wrote:

>  On 02/26/2014 11:35 PM, Dushyant Behl wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
>  I'm very sorry if i mailed at the wrong mailing list.
> I'm a master's computer science student very much enthusiastic about the
> area of Virtualization and Hypervisors and I would like to be a part of the
> Open Source community by taking part in the GSOC-2014 program with Xen. I
> have looked at the Xen project ideas and i would be interested to work on
> them, I am specifically curious about the projects -* Allowing guests to
> boot with a passed-through GPU as the primary display. and VM Snapshots.*
> I have started by looking into the xen architecture and it'd be great to
> get some starting points or to get in touch with someone regarding the
> project. Please help me by suggesting anything regarding the same.
>
>  Also I wanted to know if there's a different IRC channel for GSOC, I'm
> available on the ##xen channel under the nick - *theVoodooChild*.
>
>  Looking forward to any reply.
>
>
> Sorry for not getting back to you immediately -- did you have any
> particular questions regarding the projects?
>
>  -George
>

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