On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 3:17 PM Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear QEMU, KVM, and rust-vmm communities, > QEMU will apply for Google Summer of Code 2023 > (https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/) and has been accepted into > Outreachy May 2023 (https://www.outreachy.org/). You can now > submit internship project ideas for QEMU, KVM, and rust-vmm! > > Please reply to this email by February 6th with your project ideas. > > If you have experience contributing to QEMU, KVM, or rust-vmm you can > be a mentor. Mentors support interns as they work on their project. It's a > great way to give back and you get to work with people who are just > starting out in open source. > > 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 > > 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 FWIW there is some work to be done on libblkio [1] that QEMU could benefit from. Maybe these would be appropriate as QEMU projects? One possible project would be to add zoned device support to libblkio and all its drivers [2]. This would allow QEMU to use zoned vhost-user-blk devices, for instance (once general zoned device support lands [3]). Another idea would be to add an NVMe driver to libblkio that internally relies on xNVMe [4, 5]. This would enable QEMU users to use the NVMe drivers from SPDK or libvfn. Thanks, Alberto [1] https://libblkio.gitlab.io/libblkio/ [2] https://gitlab.com/libblkio/libblkio/-/issues/44 [3] https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20230129102850.84731-1-faithilikerun@xxxxxxxxx/ [4] https://gitlab.com/libblkio/libblkio/-/issues/45 [5] https://github.com/OpenMPDK/xNVMe
