Re: [Rust-VMM] Call for Google Summer of Code 2021 project ideas

[Andreea Florescu]

On 2/17/21 1:20 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
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> Thanks, I have published the rust-vmm project ideas on the wiki:
> https://wiki.qemu.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2021
Thanks, Stefan!
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> Please see Sergio's reply about virtio-consoile is libkrun. Maybe it
> affects the project idea?
I synced offline with Sergio. It seems I've misread his comment.
The code is already available in libkrun, and to port it to rust-vmm
will likely take just a couple of days. We explored the option of also
requesting to implement VIRTIO_CONSOLE_F_MULTIPORT to make it an
appropriate GSoC project, but we decided this is not a good idea since
it doesn't look like that feature is useful for the projects consuming
rust-vmm. It also adds complexity, and we would need to maintain that as
well.

Since it would still be nice to have virtio-console in rust-vmm, I'll
just open an issue in vm-virtio and label it with "help wanted" so
people can pick it up.
Can we remove the virtio-console project from the list of GSoC ideas?

Also, iul@amazon.com will like to help with mentoring the GSoC projects.
Can he be added as a co-mentor of: "Mocking framework for Virtio Queues"?

Sorry for the ping-pong, and thanks again for everything!

Andreea




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