Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Unicore Subproject Proposal

2017-09-20 Thread Lars Kurth
On 18/09/2017, 05:17, "Felipe Huici" wrote: Hi Lars, all, [cc’ing authors of Erlang on Xen, HalVM and Rump]. Thanks everyone for all of the support and useful comments. We’ve incorporated a number of them into a new version of the document (attached and pasted at t

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Unicore Subproject Proposal

2017-09-20 Thread Felipe Huici
Hi Lars, Great news, thanks! We sent v2 to the mailing list on the 18th, 2 days ago. When you say “post v2 first”, should we be posting it somewhere else too? Thanks, — Felipe Dr. Felipe Huici Chief Researcher, Networked Systems and D

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Unicore Subproject Proposal

2017-09-19 Thread Stefano Stabellini
On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Lars Kurth wrote: > Felipe, Simon, > a quick note to let you know that the Advisory Board in today’s AB meeting > decided to endorse your proposal. > Let me know how you proceed: from my perspective, we can kick off a formal > vote before you make modifications to the proposa

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Unicore Subproject Proposal

2017-09-19 Thread Lars Kurth
Felipe, Simon, a quick note to let you know that the Advisory Board in today’s AB meeting decided to endorse your proposal. Let me know how you proceed: from my perspective, we can kick off a formal vote before you make modifications to the proposal, but I think it is better to post v2 first. La

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Unicore Subproject Proposal

2017-09-19 Thread Stefano Stabellini
On Mon, 18 Sep 2017, Felipe Huici wrote: > Hi Lars, all, > > [cc’ing authors of Erlang on Xen, HalVM and Rump]. > > Thanks everyone for all of the support and useful comments. We’ve > incorporated a number of them into a new version of the document (attached > and pasted at the bottom for conveni

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Unicore Subproject Proposal

2017-09-15 Thread Simon Kuenzer
Hey Alexander, On 13.09.2017 10:36, Alexander Dubinin wrote: Hello Simon, all, 1. Is this academic project, or it have specific goals and areas of application? Would be good to have some practical use-cases and well formulated list of problems (we all feel these by guts,

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Unicore Subproject Proposal

2017-09-15 Thread Simon Kuenzer
Hey Lars, On 13.09.2017 18:55, Lars Kurth wrote: Simon, It looks to me as if there is some feedback: so it may make some sense to incorporate some of it and send out a version 2. We may also want to CC some reps from other unikernel projects but Mirage OS. Or you could point them to this thr

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Unicore Subproject Proposal

2017-09-13 Thread Lars Kurth
Simon, It looks to me as if there is some feedback: so it may make some sense to incorporate some of it and send out a version 2. We may also want to CC some reps from other unikernel projects but Mirage OS. Or you could point them to this thread in a separate mail through respective channels o

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Unicore Subproject Proposal

2017-09-13 Thread Alexander Dubinin
Hello Simon, all, 1. Is this academic project, or it have specific goals and areas of >> application? Would be good to have some practical use-cases and well >> formulated list of problems (we all feel these by guts, but...), it aiming >> to solve. IMHO that will help to prioritize functionality a

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Unicore Subproject Proposal

2017-09-11 Thread Simon Kuenzer
Hi Alexander, thanks a lot for your review. On 10.09.2017 22:48, Alexander Dubinin wrote: Hi Felipe, all, Great that it's going to start :) Looking forward to join :) I am looking forward to your contributions. ;) Just my 2 cents: 1. Is this academic project, or it have specific goals an

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Unicore Subproject Proposal

2017-09-10 Thread Alexander Dubinin
Hi Felipe, all, Great that it's going to start :) Looking forward to join :) Just my 2 cents: 1. Is this academic project, or it have specific goals and areas of application? Would be good to have some practical use-cases and well formulated list of problems (we all feel these by guts, but...),

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Unicore Subproject Proposal

2017-09-08 Thread Felipe Huici
Hi Wei, Stefano, Thank you so much for agreeing to be sponsors! I’ll update the document. — Felipe Dr. Felipe Huici Chief Researcher, Networked Systems and Data Analytics Group NEC Laboratories Europe, Network Research Division Kurfuer

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Unicore Subproject Proposal

2017-09-08 Thread Lars Kurth
@Wei, @Stefano, On 07/09/2017, 22:16, "Stefano Stabellini" wrote: Hi all, I would be glad to sponsor this proposal. I think it will be of great benefit to the ecosystem. Let me know if I need to do anything specific. Basically, all which is needed is an agreement. Which we

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Unicore Subproject Proposal

2017-09-08 Thread Wei Liu
Hi Felipe This is an awesome idea and I'm fully in support of this project. I'm happy to be a project sponsor alongside Stefano. Let me know if there is anything I need to do. Wei. On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 10:25:27AM +, Felipe Huici wrote: > Dear all, > > Following up on discussions that Si

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Unicore Subproject Proposal

2017-09-08 Thread Felipe Huici
Hi Stefano, >>Incubation >> -- >> The reason behind making Unicore a Xen sub-project project is to (1) >>bring >> the existence of Unicore to the attention of the Xen community >> and to outside world; (2) to attempt to harness interest and potentially >> development cycles from people an

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Unicore Subproject Proposal

2017-09-07 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
At a first glance it this appears to be an awesome proposal! I'll give it a more thorough read over the weekend. Thanks, Roman. On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 3:25 AM, Felipe Huici wrote: > Dear all, > > Following up on discussions that Simon Kuenzer had with several of you at > the last Xen summit, we’

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Unicore Subproject Proposal

2017-09-07 Thread Stefano Stabellini
On Thu, 7 Sep 2017, Felipe Huici wrote: > Dear all, > > Following up on discussions that Simon Kuenzer had with several of you at > the last Xen summit, we’re now submitting a Xen subproject proposal based > on our Unicore work. Could you please review it? Only a couple of comments. I think this

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Unicore Subproject Proposal

2017-09-07 Thread Stefano Stabellini
Hi all, I would be glad to sponsor this proposal. I think it will be of great benefit to the ecosystem. Let me know if I need to do anything specific. Cheers, Stefano On Thu, 7 Sep 2017, Lars Kurth wrote: > Hi all, > > there is a technical issue which still needs resolving: we need a Sponsor.

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Unicore Subproject Proposal

2017-09-07 Thread Lars Kurth
On 07/09/2017, 14:24, "Andrew Cooper" wrote: > Unicore - The "Unikernel Core" > - > The high level goal of Unicore is to be able to build unikernels targeted > at specific applications without requiring the time-consuming, expert work > that bu

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Unicore Subproject Proposal

2017-09-07 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, there is a technical issue which still needs resolving: we need a Sponsor. I am thinking of Wei – he would qualify as a Hypervisor Leadership team member and it would have the benefit of making sure that the MiniOS angle is covered. I asked Wei, and he will get back to us once he read t

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Unicore Subproject Proposal

2017-09-07 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 07/09/17 11:25, Felipe Huici wrote: > Background > -- > In recent years, several papers and projects dedicated to unikernels have > shown the immense potential for performance gains that these have. By > leveraging specialization and the use of minimalistic OSes, unikernels are > able to