Re: [Xen-devel] Any tips for a newbie Xen developer? How to understand basics and start contributing fast

["Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)" <singapore.mr.teo.en.ming@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Ranjith,

I have written the following documentation for Xen, Linux Kernel, and Xen VGA Passthrough.

Article #1: Building and Installing Xen 4.x and Linux Kernel 3.x on Ubuntu and Debian Linux

Version: 1.3

Filename of attachment: Building and Installing Xen 4.x and Linux Kernel 3.x on Ubuntu and Debian Linux - Version 1.3 - REDUCED.pdf

Article #2: Xen VGA Passthrough to Windows 8 Consumer Preview HVM domU and Windows XP Home Edition HVM domU with Xen 4.2-unstable Changeset 25070 and Linux Kernel 3.3.0 in Ubuntu 11.10 amd64 dom0

Version: 1.2
Filename of attachment: Xen VGA Passthrough - Version 1.2.pdf

Please download my PDF files from the attachments in this email. If you need help regarding Xen, Linux Kernel, and Xen VGA Passthrough, please feel free to email me or xen mailing lists.

Thank you very much for your kind attention.

Yours sincerely,

Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
Singapore

On 22/03/2012 03:30, Ranjith Krishnan wrote:

Hello,

I am a graduate student at the University of Kansas, Lawrence and am interested in working on Xen, and contribute towards it.
I have background in C/C++ coding, and have taken courses in Operating Systems, Virtual Machines, Client-Server programming, Data structures etc.

I am just beginning to get Xen working on my system. Have a yum-install version working, but will be building xen from source so that I can look at the source code and figure out how things are working/implemented.

I got the book, "The definitive guide to the Xen hypervisor" mentioned in the wiki.

My questions are these.

1. Is my background enough to figure out basics of xen, and provide meaningful contributions to some components in the Xen hypervisor codebase ?

2. Are there any must read documentations on the xen wiki or xen.org page that will help me get upto speed quick ? I must say I am a bit overwhelmed since Xen is a considerable effort and there is a lot of documentation on the webpage.  There is a lot of new terminology that I am bombarded with (pvops, xend, xapi etc).

3. Are there any projects available to work on currently ?


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Ranjith

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