On 1/28/22 17:47, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
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Dear QEMU, KVM, and rust-vmm communities,
QEMU will apply for Google Summer of Code 2022
(https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/) and has been accepted into
Outreachy May-August 2022 (https://www.outreachy.org/). You can now
submit internship project ideas for QEMU, KVM, and rust-vmm!
If you have experience contributing to QEMU, KVM, or rust-vmm you can
be a mentor. It's a great way to give back and you get to work with
people who are just starting out in open source.
Please reply to this email by February 21st with your project ideas.
Hey, I am a bit late here, but in case it is still possible, I would
like to also propose a project.
Title: Extend the aarch64 support for rust-vmm/vmm-reference
Summary:
The vmm-reference is a reference implementation of a Rust VMM based on
rust-vmm crates.
This is currently used for testing the integration of rust-vmm
components, with plans of extending it
such that it becomes a starting point for custom Rust VMMs.
The vmm-reference currently has support for x86_64 and POC level support
for aarch64.
On aarch64, it just supports booting a dummy VM with no devices, while
on x86_64 it has support for the
vsock-network and vsock-block devices. The purpose of this project is to
extend the existing functionality
getting it closer to what is already available on x86_64, and consume
the readily available crates
(for example vm-allocator) that would make the integration easier.
Resources:
- about the vmm-reference: https://github.com/rust-vmm/vmm-reference
- about the rust-vmm project: https://github.com/rust-vmm/community
- task breakdown for adding arm support:
https://github.com/rust-vmm/vmm-reference/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Aaarch64
Language:
- 90% Rust
- 10% Python (used for adapting the already existing integration tests)
Mentors:
- fandree@xxxxxxxxxx
- gsserge@xxxxxxxxxx
Good project ideas are suitable for remote work by a competent
programmer who is not yet familiar with the codebase. In
addition, they are:
- Well-defined - the scope is clear
- Self-contained - there are few dependencies
- Uncontroversial - they are acceptable to the community
- Incremental - they produce deliverables along the way
Feel free to post ideas even if you are unable to mentor the project.
It doesn't hurt to share the idea!
I will review project ideas and keep you up-to-date on QEMU's
acceptance into GSoC.
Internship program details:
- Paid, remote work open source internships
- GSoC projects are 175 or 350 hours, Outreachy projects are 30
hrs/week for 12 weeks
- Mentored by volunteers from QEMU, KVM, and rust-vmm
- Mentors typically spend at least 5 hours per week during the coding period
Changes since last year: GSoC now has 175 or 350 hour project sizes
instead of 12 week full-time projects. GSoC will accept applicants who
are not students, before it was limited to students.
For more background on QEMU internships, check out this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNVCX7YMUL8
Please let me know if you have any questions!
Stefan
Amazon Development Center (Romania) S.R.L. registered office: 27A Sf. Lazar Street, UBC5, floor 2, Iasi, Iasi County, 700045, Romania. Registered in Romania. Registration number J22/2621/2005.
