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From: Sahil <icegambit91@gmail.com>
To: eperezma@redhat.com, sgarzare@redhat.com
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Intention to work on GSoC project
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 03:08:47 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13625712.uLZWGnKmhe@valdaarhun> (raw)

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. 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.

I have read the "Getting Started for Developers" [2] wiki page. I have also
built QEMU from source.

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. 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?

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.

Regards,
Sahil
https://github.com/valdaarhun

[1] https://wiki.qemu.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2024
[2] https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/GettingStartedDevelopers
[3] https://qemu-project.gitlab.io/qemu/devel/migration/index.html
[4] https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/?
label_name%5B%5D=device%3Avirtio
[5] https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/230
[6] https://github.com/strace/strace/commits?author=valdaarhun
[7] https://github.com/htop-dev/htop/commits?author=valdaarhun




             reply	other threads:[~2024-02-25 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-25 21:38 Sahil [this message]
2024-02-29  8:32 ` Intention to work on GSoC project Stefano Garzarella
2024-02-29 19:02   ` Sahil
2024-03-01  7:40   ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2024-03-01 18:29     ` Sahil
2024-03-14 15:09       ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2024-03-15  7:14         ` Sahil
2024-03-15 11:27           ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2024-03-16 20:26             ` Sahil
2024-03-18 19:47               ` Sahil
2024-03-20 16:29                 ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2024-03-25 13:20                   ` Sahil
2024-04-01 18:23                     ` daleyoung4242
2024-04-02  4:58                       ` Sahil
2024-04-02 11:38                         ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2024-04-03 14:36                           ` Sahil
2024-04-03 18:37                             ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2024-04-04 19:06                               ` Sahil
2024-04-14 18:52                                 ` Sahil
2024-04-15  8:57                                   ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2024-04-15 19:42                                     ` Sahil
2024-04-16  8:41                                       ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2024-04-17  4:23                                         ` Sahil
2024-05-06 19:00                                           ` Sahil
2024-05-07  7:14                                             ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2024-05-08  3:23                                               ` Sahil
2024-05-13 13:49                                                 ` Sahil
2024-05-13 14:23                                                   ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2024-05-13 18:04                                                     ` Sahil
2024-03-20 15:57               ` Eugenio Perez Martin

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