On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 9:32 AM Stefano Garzarella <sgarz...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Hi Sahil, > > On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 10:38 PM Sahil <icegambi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > My name is Sahil and I go by the pseudonym 'valdaarhun' on Github. I have > > never contributed to QEMU before but I have used it a few times as an end > > user. I developed an interest in virtualization during my internship at > > VMware and would like to dive deeper in this subfield. > > > > My current full-time job does not allow me to take part in external programs > > that are paid. I would like to work on one of the proposed projects outside > > of GSoC. > > Sure, not a problem at all, also because for this year QEMU was not > accepted in GSoC, so anybody can work on those projects if they have > time > > > I have gone through QEMU's list of GSoC '24 projects [1] and am > > interested in two of them: > > > > 1. Add packed virtqueue to Shadow Virtqueue > > 2. vhost-user memory isolation > > > > Based on what I have understood, they are somewhat related and are part > > of the migration subsystem. I feel the learning curve of the first project > > will be less steep and will make me better prepared to tackle the second > > project as well. > > The first project is for sure related with migration. While vhost-user > memory isolation is not really related to migration, but both are > related to virtio devices. > Anyway, your plan looks good to me! >
I agree with all Stefano's answers above. > > > > I have read the "Getting Started for Developers" [2] wiki page. I have also > > built QEMU from source. > > Great! > > > > > I think my next step should be to read the documentation on the migration > > subsystem [3], the blog posts attached in the first project's description > > and virtqueue's implementation. You can add the recently published "virtio-live-migration-technical-deep-dive" :) [1]. [1] https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/02/21/virtio-live-migration-technical-deep-dive > > Would you also recommend that I work on a > > QEMU issue that is open on Gitlab and related to virtqueues/virtio to > > familiarize > > myself with the codebase? I went through the issues tagged as > > "device:virtio" > > [4] > > but can't really tell if any of them are good for beginners. One of them has > > the > > "bite-size" tag [5]. It also has a patch attached but hasn't been merged. > > Shall I > > work on getting that merged? > > Yeah, "bite-size" issues should be better to understand how to > contribute to QEMU. > Feel free to work on any issue, doing the work or helping to complete > old patches. > Right, There are few other tasks pending for QEMU in general and SVQ in particular. I'll add them as gitlab issues by today. Thanks! > > > > I have worked on a few smaller systems programming issues in other > > organizations (eg: strace [6], htop [7]) in the past. > > > > I look forward to hearing from you. > > Feel free to reach us if you have more questions on the projects. > > Thanks, > Stefano >
