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
