Re: [Xen-devel] [Outreachy] Doubts regarding setup, git version and selection of micro task

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 05:04:00PM +0530, Tejaswini Poluri wrote:
> Hi Stefano and Julien,
> 
> This is Tejaswini. I had been working as a Senior Software developer in
> Samsung and Cavium networks in linux kernel domain previously. I took a
> break for one year for personal reasons. I am looking forward to restart my
> career as a Linux engineer again with outreachy 2017 internships. I have
> experience of working with device trees and virtual filesystems.
> 
> Hence, I found the following projects
> <https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_Projects> of
> Xen-hypervisor very interesting:
> 1. Xen on ARM: create multiple guests from device tree
> 2. Share a page in memory from the VM config file
> 
> I have an intel i5 laptop already running both windows 10 + ubuntu 16.04. I
> was looking at Nested virtualization
> <https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Nested_Virtualization_in_Xen> option to
> build and test Xen. Would this work for these projects?
> 

Won't work for ARM projects.

> Also, what <https://www.xenproject.org/downloads/xen-archives.html> version
> of git are we supposed to work on ?
> 

None of those listed in xen-archives.html.

You need to work on the staging branch of xen.git.

> I would like to work on the XEN-6 task
> <https://xenproject.atlassian.net/projects/XEN/issues/XEN-6?filter=allissues>
> present in JIRA. Can I do it with nested virtualization option ?

I suppose XEN-7 is more suitable.

Unfortunately you can't easily test blktap2 even if you have Xen set up
on real hardware. Please be aware that you need to ask for actual
blktap2 users to test your change. It's going to take a lot longer to
finish.

Wei.

> 
> Looking forward for your reply to start working
> 
> Regards,
> Tejaswini
> Linkendin <https://www.linkedin.com/in/tejaswini-poluri-a8963416>

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