Hi, I'm interested in participating in this years edition of Google Summer of Code.
I the last years I did a lot of work on hypervisors. Currently I'm working with a hypervisor on ARM for my master degree. On previous projects using x86, the ability to do a quick debugging run using QEMU with SVM support helped me a lot. However, the ARM version of QEMU is still lacking this useful feature. Initially I wanted to propose the implementation of ARMv7 virtualization extensions. I know this is not supported at the moment. Also based on the documentation I found I thought it is still untouched. However, when I looked at git log I saw that there is some preparation to include EL2 support (LPAE, nested paging preparation, etc). Is there demand for a GSoC project to further ARM virtualization extension support? I have some experience with the QEMU codebase. In my bachelor thesis I adopted QEMU (1.0 war stable at the time) to execute guests deterministically (in particular SMP guests). However, this work was never submitted upstream due to the different focus. I appreciate any comments. Best regards Merten
