Re: [MirageOS-devel] Projects for Students at the University of Texas in Austin

[Joe <joe@xxxxxxx>]

On 10/24/19 11:35 PM, Jie Hao Liao wrote:
> For whom may this concern,
>
> I'm Jay, one of the students at the University of Texas in Austin majoring
> in Computer Science. This fall 2019 semester I'm taking a Virtualization
> <https://github.com/vijay03/cs378-f19> course for understanding and
> building Hypervisors, Containers, and Unikernels. We would like to work on
> a project related to building features for Unikernels for this class.

It is not 100% clear to me if you're looking for a C programming project 
or an OCaml programming project, but in case it's C:
I think the Solo5 project [1] is a good place to start; it's small, 
modular, and tidy, which makes it nicer to work with than some of the 
larger behemoths in our ecosystem. It supports a number of backends 
ranging from "real" hypervisors (Xen, Genode) to the Linux seccomp 
target ("spt") which is basically just sandboxed Linux applications.
- Mato mentioned that reviving the Mac OS target for Solo5 might be a 
fun and useful project (well, at least useful) :-)
- I am personally interested in having some building blocks for RPC 
among Solo5 guests, namely shared memory and a synchronous 
datagram-based communication channel (like the Xen hypervisor's "vchan" 
implementation). The "io_uring" ringbuffer [2] implementation recently 
added to Linux could serve as inspiration, as could some of the XDP 
("eXpress Data Path") building blocks. The value proposition of shared 
memory is that it enables fast communication with low copying overhead, 
which makes it well-suited for things like graphics. This would allow us 
to build implementations like Genode's "Nitpicker" [3] for MirageOS 
applications.
Joe

[1] https://github.com/solo5/solo5
[2] https://zedware.github.io/IO-URING
[3] https://genode-labs.com/publications/nitpicker-secure-gui-2005.pdf

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