Re: [Xen-API] [Xen-devel] GSoC 2012 project brainstorming

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 16:53 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> Below are a few ideas which have been floating around as potential
> projects (or broad subject areas for projects) for GSoC this year.
> 
> If you want any more information on any particular item then please ask.
> Likewise if you have any ideas of your own please feel free to chip in.
> 
> If you think you might be interested in a project, either as mentor or
> potential student, then please add it to the wiki page at
> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/GSoC_2012_Ideas
> 

I've just added a proposal for "xl to xapi offline VM migration
utility". I know the xl side well and I'm reasonably familiar with
XenAPI etc but it would be really useful to have a co-/backup-mentor
from the xen-api@ side of things.

Ian.

> TOOLS
> -----
> - pv grub2
> - xapi support in libvirt
> - make xapi use libxl
> - compile xapi on ARM
> - OpenXenManager
> - driver domains
> - PV dbus
> - HA daemon for Remus
> - HA daemon for XCP
> 
> PERF
> ----
> - Oprofile
> - Linux perf tools in guest
> 
> HYPERVISOR
> ----------
> - insmod Xen
> - event channel limits
> - NUMA
> 
> MEMORY
> ------
> - disk based memory sharing
> - memory scanner
> - paging replacing PoD
> - VM Fork
> - Copy on read (past VDI boot)
> 
> 
> IO
> --
> - PV OpenGL/Gallium
> - PV USB
> - PV USB3
> - PV SCSI
> - PVFB in Xorg
> - Infiniband
> 
> 
> STORAGE
> -------
> - gluster/ceph plugins
> 
> 
> QEMU
> ----
> - BSD libc
> - upstream QEMU stubdoms
> 
> 
> TESTS
> -----
> - better web reporting
> - more tests
> - upstream linux
> 
> 
> DISTROS
> -------
> - packaging stubdoms
> - xen on centos6
> - driver domains
> - figure out the VM format issue
> - XSM in distros
> 
> 
> 
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