Re: [Outreachy] Doubts regarding setup, git version and selection of micro task

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>]

(CC Lars)

Hi,

On 05/04/17 12:51, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 05:04:00PM +0530, Tejaswini Poluri wrote:
>> Hi Stefano and Julien,
>>
>> This is Tejaswini. I had been working as a Senior Software developer in
>> Samsung and Cavium networks in linux kernel domain previously. I took a
>> break for one year for personal reasons. I am looking forward to restart my
>> career as a Linux engineer again with outreachy 2017 internships. I have
>> experience of working with device trees and virtual filesystems.

Thank you for your interest on the project.

I think the deadline for Outreachy has been extended to 13th of April. 
You would need to fill out an application (see 
https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Outreachy/Apply).

>>
>> Hence, I found the following projects
>> <https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_Projects> of
>> Xen-hypervisor very interesting:
>> 1. Xen on ARM: create multiple guests from device tree
>> 2. Share a page in memory from the VM config file
>>
>> I have an intel i5 laptop already running both windows 10 + ubuntu 16.04. I
>> was looking at Nested virtualization
>> <https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Nested_Virtualization_in_Xen> option to
>> build and test Xen. Would this work for these projects?
>>
>
> Won't work for ARM projects.

The second project (Share a page in memory from VM config file) could be 
done on both x86 and ARM.

The first will be ARM specific. For that you can either use the real 
hardware such as the cubieboard or use the foundation model provided 
freely by ARM (see [1]).
>
>> Also, what <https://www.xenproject.org/downloads/xen-archives.html> version
>> of git are we supposed to work on ?
>>
>
> None of those listed in xen-archives.html.
>
> You need to work on the staging branch of xen.git.
>
>> I would like to work on the XEN-6 task
>> <https://xenproject.atlassian.net/projects/XEN/issues/XEN-6?filter=allissues>
>> present in JIRA. Can I do it with nested virtualization option ?
>
> I suppose XEN-7 is more suitable.
>
> Unfortunately you can't easily test blktap2 even if you have Xen set up
> on real hardware. Please be aware that you need to ask for actual
> blktap2 users to test your change. It's going to take a lot longer to
> finish.

You can find a list of small tasks here:

https://xenproject.atlassian.net/browse/XEN-38?jql=labels%20%3D%20SMALL

Let us know which one you plan to pick.

Cheers,

[1] https://developer.arm.com/products/system-design/fixed-virtual-platforms

-- 
Julien Grall

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