On Sun, Feb 15, 2026 at 1:25 PM Helge Deller <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Stefan, > > On 2/10/26 19:23, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > > You can still propose an idea before February 19th. > > > > 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. > > It is interesting, but it is only available with Linux hosts, > and doesn't seem to handle existing TAPE files or can be > used to permanently store things (e.g. it handles everything in RAM). > > > If you have a use case for SCSI tape emulation in QEMU then it sounds > > like something that would fit GSoC. > > Here is my proposal. > I hope this is OK?
Thanks, Helge. I have added your project idea to the wiki and edited it: https://wiki.qemu.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2026#SCSI_TAPE_device_emulation The intern needs to research the project idea and come up with a design before the coding period starts. You can make this easier by specifying more of the design so the intern has less to figure out. I think your project description contains enough pointers so that a motivated applicant can discuss the details with you during the GSoC application phase. Two pieces of information that could help focus this project: 1. Do you have any tape data files for reference that you want QEMU to be able to access? 2. Do you have a particular guest OS in mind? Stefan
