Hi all, my suggestion concerns Desktop as a Service (DaaS) based on linux kvm and Spice. Spice protocol is opensource and could be included to expand cloudstack features. Ignazio
2014/1/6 manas biswal <manas.biswa...@gmail.com> > virtual disk inter- operability , may be another area, means study > about different disk formats that CloudStack is supporting. > like qucow, vhd etc. > > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 9:14 PM, sebgoa <run...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Jan 6, 2014, at 5:33 AM, jitendra shelar < > jitendra.shelar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi All, > >> > >> I am pursuing with my MS at BITs, Pilani, India. > >> I am planning of doing my final sem project in cloudstack. > >> > >> Can somebody please suggest me some research areas in cloudstack? > >> > > > > Hi Jitendra, it depends what you mean by 'research', but there are a lot > of interesting projects to do IMHO: > > > > -Integration testing: Develop the Marvin framework and write tests to > continuously check the support for CloudStack clients (libcloud, AWS, > jclouds etc) this would require learning jenkins, understanding continuous > integration pipeline and finding ways to tests these clients automatically. > > > > -Investigating Xen GPU passthrough and setting up a demo where Xen > hypervisors are tagged specifically for VM that need access to GPUs, run > CUDA code on them… > > > > -Investigate Mesos framework and develop deployments scripts to > automatically deploy Mesos on a CloudStack infrastructure, the end goal > being to demo running mixed workloads (MPI, hadoop, spark) on a virtualized > infrastructure in cloudstack > > > > -Docker integration/use, a few of us have been talking about this and > you would be likely to get some help from the community. > > > > -Review of configuration management systems (chef, puppet, ansible, > saltstack...) develop recipes for deploying cloudstack for all systems > (some already exist), from source and from packages. Include management > server and hypervisor setup. Ideally had a wrapper to link to the > hypervisor and the mgt server together automatically using Marvin. > > > > -Investigate PaaS solutions and their integration with CloudStack. > Software like cloudify, openshift, cloudfoundry, appscale…some of it is > already done but a thorough analysis of pros and cons as well as code > writing to finish the integration of some would be great. > > > > You can also check out JIRA: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK , browse through the > long list of 'bugs' and pick what seems interesting to you. > > > > This all depends of course on your skills and interest, are you more of > a java developer or a sys admin ? Are you interested in integration with > third party software or core java development ? > > > > Cheers, > > > > -sebastien > > > >> Thanks, > >> Jitendra > > > > > > -- > Thanks and Regards > Manas Ranjan Biswal > Research Scientist, > OpenTechnology Center, > NIC,Chennai > 08015698191,9776349149 > manas.bis...@nic.in >
