Google Summer of Code 2012

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Introduction

As we did last year, QEMU is going to apply as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2012. This page contains our ideas list and some additional information for students and mentors.

Please note that QEMU, as a GSoC organization, also includes the following projects:

  • The Linux Kernel's KVM module
  • Libvirt, the virtualization library (pending OK from libvirt people)

Organization

Any Question, request or problem regarding QEMU in GSoC, please contact the following people.

Find Us

GSoC important pages

Information for students

We require students to provide (at least) the following information in their applications:

  • Contact information (email, irc nick, phone number)
  • A general personal description (skills, past experiences and possible open source contributions)
  • Why QEMU and why this project
  • A detailed description of the approach the student will take

Please get in touch before applying so we can arrange for an IRC interview and get to know each other. Students who do not contact the mentor cannot be accepted.

VERY IMPORTANT: Submitting a patch and having it merged by QEMU or KVM increases your chances of being accepted.

Projects Ideas

This is the listing of suggested project ideas. It might be useful to check last year's page. Also note that students are free to suggest their own projects. 

== TITLE ==
 
 '''Summary:''' Short description of the project
 
 Detailed description of the project.
 
 '''Links:'''
 * Wiki links to relevant material
 * External links to mailing lists or web sites
 
 * Component: QEMU or KVM or libvirt
 * Skill level: beginner or intermediate or advanced
 * Language: C
 * Mentor: Email address and IRC nick
 * Suggested by: Person who suggested the idea

git style front-end to QEMU

Summary: Provide a git like front-end for QEMU that allows for enumerating running instances and manipulating them from a command line.

Starting in the 1.0 release, we freed up the qemu executable name in order to allow a script to be introduced that would provide an easier to use scripting interface to QEMU. It would provide a series of sub commands like list, create, shutdown, etc. that would provide an alternative command line front-end to QEMU that the qemu-system executables.

Links:

  • Component: QEMU
  • Skill level: beginner
  • Language: Python
  • Mentor: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> (IRC: aliguori)
  • Suggested by: Anthony Liguori

Finish OS X Virtualization Support

Summary: Finish up the last remaining pieces to enable running Mac OS X guests on Linux on Mac hardware

There are a few remaining pieces of work to allow virtualizing OS X guests in KVM. A few devices still need to be up-streamed. Testing needs to be done, and likely some new code will have to be written to fix certain bugs. The last time anyone was successful in running OS X in KVM was OS X 10.4. Support for newer versions would be required. The most recently updated patches that I know of would be in the OpenSUSE src rpm for the kvm package.

Links:

  • Component: QEMU/KVM
  • Skill level: intermediate/advanced
  • Language: C
  • Mentor: iggy/agraf__
  • Suggested by: iggy
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