GSoC 2017 Project "Make Anita support multiple virtual machine systems"

Utkarsh Anand Thu, 30 Mar 2017 11:13:28 -0700

Sir/Ma'am,
I am Utkarsh Anand, a second year undergraduate student studying at Indian
Institute of Technology, Kanpur. I have been using linux since the year
2009. I am familiar with many programming languages (C, C++, Python,
Javascript etc. to name a few). I would like to apply for "Make Anita
support multiple virtual machine systems" as GSoC 2017 project. I have
already gone through the entire code of anita 1.40. I had a few questions
related to the project:
1. It looks like it already had support for xen, although, the page:
http://www.gson.org/netbsd/anita/ says that it has 'experimental support'.
So, are there any issues that need to be resolved? Or any features that
need to be added? I'd like to know about it.
2. Line nos. 125-132 (the function definition for make_dense_image) define
a function for creating a file of given file size. Was there any advantage
(as in speed etc.) for choosing to write your own function instead of
something like
<code>
ret =
os.spawnvp(os.P_WAIT,'dd',['dd','if=/dev/zero','of=/home/utkarsh/new.img','bs=1MiB','count=10'])
if not ret:
    print("image created!")
</code>
We could get the block size, count and filename from the user, just like
the original function and the user name from the environment variable USER.
3. If the xen support is complete, the only thing left to do is virtualbox
support, which should be similar to qemu and xen. Am I right?
4. What other modules would you like to add?


Lastly, I would like to assure that I am ready to put in any amount of
effort required for the project.

LinkedIN profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/utkarsh-anand-02a953115/
Blogs: bumblebeesky.blogspot.com , micromax-mmx-310g.blogspot.com
github: github.com/utkarsh009

Thanking You,
Utkarsh Anand

GSoC 2017 Project "Make Anita support multiple virtual machine systems"

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