Re: GSoC 2025 Project Proposal

From: Abhinav Chavali <abhinavchavali12_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 12:58:04 UTC
In that case, do you think a project like that would be worth undertaking
over the summer? I'm actually quite interested in this issue if its
feasible.

On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:

> Most of that work would be to adopt qemu to use vmm, and then fix the
> structural issue in vmm that makes using it from qemu awkward.
>
> Warner
>
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2025, 7:06 PM Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> You could try to patch or rewrite bhyve so that it can accelerate qemu.
>> We need this.
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 10:06 PM Abhinav Chavali <
>> abhinavchavali12@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I am a student at the Pennsylvania State University looking to
>>> contribute to FreeBSD in the summer, in some form or another. I've been a
>>> desktop user of FreeBSD for several years now, and would now like to learn
>>> a specific subsystem and undergo a potential project for this summer.
>>>
>>> My experience with FreeBSD development is limited to writing simple
>>> kernel modules, although I have a strong understanding of C and Unix
>>> programming (and am willing to spend as much time as required before summer
>>> to fill in the gaps in my knowledge). I have already taken a look at the
>>> GSoC projects page, but I'm not sure how many of these are still relevant.
>>> Could anyone suggest a project that someone with my experience level could
>>> reasonably learn and complete? Also contacts to potential mentors would be
>>> very helpful.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Abhinav Chavali
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Mario.
>>
>