Re: [Xen-devel] [GSoC 2017] Rust bindings for libxl

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 10:47:08AM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> Hello Saurav
> 
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 03:50:37PM +0000, Saurav Sachidanand wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm Saurav Sachidanand, and I'm a CS sophomore studying in India. For
> > more than year I've been programming in Rust and have published some
> > personal projects in it (few involving the Rust-C FFI) and have
> > contributed a some code to Servo (github.com/saurvs). I've also
> > played around a bit with kernel modules in NetBSD.
> > 
> > I'm interested in Xen's project for creating Rust bindings for libxl.
> > Since I'm new to Xen, I'll spend time reading the docs, building and
> > testing out Xen, and researching on the how to go about the
> > implementing the bindings.
> > 
> 
> Yeah, the first step would be to install and play with Xen for a bit.
> 
> > I'd greatly appreciate any guidance and pointers you can give
> > regarding this project. And if you could point me to some small coding
> > tasks, I can start working it to get familiar with Xen's code base.
> > 
> 
> From my point of view, this project needs to achieve several goals:
> 
> 1. generate bindings systematically and automatically;
> 2. be committed in tree (xen.git) -- see also tools/python directory;
> 3. can be tested in project's CI infrastructure (osstest).
> 
> Doug might have more points to add.
> 
> As a small exercise, please try to implement a program in Rust so that
> we can see (more or less) the same information as you would see when
> calling "xl info", and provide building instructions so that we can test
> it. Bonus point: do it in the form of a patch against xen.git so that we
> can build it in-tree.
> 
> And then you can come up with some ideas on how to achieve the goals.
> 

Forgot to say: feel free to ask questions if you find it difficult to
navigate xen source code.

The code you want to check out at this stage is tools/libxl,
tools/xl. Please also have a look at tools/python for existing in-tree
bindings.

Wei.

> Wei.
> 
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Saurav

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