On 3/19/19 12:36 AM, John Snow wrote: > > > On 3/18/19 12:27 PM, Javier Romero wrote: >> Hi John, >> >> Thanks for your answer. I'm a Linux sysadmin and would like to start >> contributing with testing, if that could be useful for the project. >> >> And of course, I'm opened to learn new things and that would also be >> very interesting for me. >> >> Best Regards, >> >> >> >> Javier Romero >> > > I know gmail makes it hard, but when posting to this list (and most > development lists), we usually prefer replying underneath instead of > above. (When in doubt, mimic what the people you are emailing seem to do > with their mails.) > > It's usually best if you have something specific in mind, but if you're > curious in general I can recommend subscribing to this list and reading > the traffic for a little while to get an idea for the types of projects > that are being worked on. You might see something that catches your eye, > or something that a developer dismisses as a "nice to have, but I don't > have time for right now" that might be a good chance to investigate further. > > It might be hard to get a grander view of the work at first, but if you > are determined to learn more about KVM I'd recommend building the module > from source and reading through the wiki and try to familiarize yourself > with the tooling. > > Do you have much C programming experience as a sysadmin? You might find > it hard to make much meaningful headway without it. Never too late to > start, but you might find it easier to learn C outside the kernel > instead of within it. > There are two interesting projects to understand hardware virtualization basic: https://github.com/JulesWang/JOS-vmx https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse481a/18wi/exercises/ Dongli Zhang
