Hi Sahil, On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 10:38 PM Sahil <icegambi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > My name is Sahil and I go by the pseudonym 'valdaarhun' on Github. I have > never contributed to QEMU before but I have used it a few times as an end > user. I developed an interest in virtualization during my internship at > VMware and would like to dive deeper in this subfield. > > My current full-time job does not allow me to take part in external programs > that are paid. I would like to work on one of the proposed projects outside > of GSoC.
Sure, not a problem at all, also because for this year QEMU was not accepted in GSoC, so anybody can work on those projects if they have time > I have gone through QEMU's list of GSoC '24 projects [1] and am > interested in two of them: > > 1. Add packed virtqueue to Shadow Virtqueue > 2. vhost-user memory isolation > > Based on what I have understood, they are somewhat related and are part > of the migration subsystem. I feel the learning curve of the first project > will be less steep and will make me better prepared to tackle the second > project as well. The first project is for sure related with migration. While vhost-user memory isolation is not really related to migration, but both are related to virtio devices. Anyway, your plan looks good to me! > > I have read the "Getting Started for Developers" [2] wiki page. I have also > built QEMU from source. Great! > > I think my next step should be to read the documentation on the migration > subsystem [3], the blog posts attached in the first project's description > and virtqueue's implementation. Would you also recommend that I work on a > QEMU issue that is open on Gitlab and related to virtqueues/virtio to > familiarize > myself with the codebase? I went through the issues tagged as "device:virtio" > [4] > but can't really tell if any of them are good for beginners. One of them has > the > "bite-size" tag [5]. It also has a patch attached but hasn't been merged. > Shall I > work on getting that merged? Yeah, "bite-size" issues should be better to understand how to contribute to QEMU. Feel free to work on any issue, doing the work or helping to complete old patches. > > I have worked on a few smaller systems programming issues in other > organizations (eg: strace [6], htop [7]) in the past. > > I look forward to hearing from you. Feel free to reach us if you have more questions on the projects. Thanks, Stefano
