Re: [Xen-devel] GSoC 2012 project brainstorming

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 04:53:57PM +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
> 
> Ian.
> 
> 
> HYPERVISOR
> ----------
> - insmod Xen
> - event channel limits
> - NUMA
> 

See below..

> IO
> --
> - PV OpenGL/Gallium
> - PV USB

Just for reference..
PVUSB (USB 2) driver for pvops Linux 3.x is available from:
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-02/msg00576.html
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-02/msg00571.html

http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_USB_Passthrough


> - PV USB3

Is anyone working on this?


> - PV SCSI

PVSCSI driver for pvops Linux 3.x is available from:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/devel/xen-scsi.v1.0

http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Paravirtualized_SCSI

> 
> 
> QEMU
> ----
> - BSD libc
> - upstream QEMU stubdoms
> 

Not sure if this should be in HYPERVISOR or QEMU section:

- Xen HVM guest direct kernel+initramfs boot support, just like for PV guests. 
This has been requested a couple of times and would be useful feature to have.
KVM/Qemu supports this.


-- Pasi



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