Google Summer of Code 2010

This is a page for collecting ideas to present to Google Summer of Code 2010.

Ideas by Natalia Portillo:

• Add Macintosh to 68k system emulation.
• Boot Mac OS X (x86 and x86-64) without hacking it.
• Boot Mac OS >= 8.5 on PowerPC system emulation (Toolbox is included with system so no need for Mac's ROM dump)
• Add a more common VGA, like the S3 Trio (more guests have native drivers for that card than for Cirrus GD5446)
• Enhance, update and integrate Acorn Archimedes system emulation (it was available for 0.9.0 or so)
• BeBox system emulation
• NeXT machines system emulation

Ideas by Cam Macdonell:

• Shared memory transport between guest(s) and host.
• Pass through file systems (9p, CIFS)

Ideas by Anthony Liguori:

• Add support for guest copy/paste
• Add more sophisticated encodings to VNC server
• Write a C QMP library based on QEMU json and qmp code

Ideas by Jan Kiszka:

• Device state visualization (savevm-based capturing, pretty-printing infrastructure, support for popular devices)
• Upstreaming some of the Android emulator bits

Mentors

• Brian Jackson
  • IRC Nick: iggy
  • Areas Of Specialty: Jack of all trades
  • I'm not a hardcore qemu dev, but I know my way around, I know who knows what, my time is probably less valuable than some of the other devs, and I have the available time to do it
• Natalia Portillo
  • IRC Nick: claunia
  • I'm not a qemu developer but I have the most extensive collection of guests systems for testing, access to a couple of hardware and lots of documentation.