On 2/10/26 19:23, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 12:45 PM Helge Deller <[email protected]> wrote:
On 1/27/26 15:18, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
You are welcome to add the MPE project idea if you want to mentor it
this summer. It's okay if you are still waiting on responses from
people you are in touch with. Now that QEMU has at least 4 project
ideas I can go ahead and submit the GSoC org application and you can
still add your idea later.
Is there still time (before the 19th) ?
Instead of MPE, I wonder if there was at any time the idea to
add a SCSI TAPE emulation? I mean, not a pass-through driver,
but something which emulates a real drive, or at least the basic
SCSI TAPE commands. Maybe by utilizing the tape library from
the SIMH project?
Hi Helge,
You can still propose an idea before February 19th.
Great!
The Linux scsi_debug driver has support for emulating a tape device,
so that may already be usable with QEMU but I'm not sure.
Interesting! I will need to test it soon!
If you have a use case for SCSI tape emulation in QEMU then it sounds
like something that would fit GSoC.
For MPE the systems are usually installed via tape, so it would
be good to be able to specify a file with the copy of the tape
and show up as tape drive in qemu.
The scsi_debug driver might be useable for that, but it's probably
not as easy to set up like e.g. a harddisc in qemu right now. I assume
you will need root user too, so an own qemu driver might be better.
Will check....
Helge
