[Xen-devel] GSoC 2012 project brainstorming

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Below are a few ideas which have been floating around as potential
projects (or broad subject areas for projects) for GSoC this year.

If you want any more information on any particular item then please ask.
Likewise if you have any ideas of your own please feel free to chip in.

If you think you might be interested in a project, either as mentor or
potential student, then please add it to the wiki page at
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/GSoC_2012_Ideas

Ian.

TOOLS
-----
- pv grub2
- xapi support in libvirt
- make xapi use libxl
- compile xapi on ARM
- OpenXenManager
- driver domains
- PV dbus
- HA daemon for Remus
- HA daemon for XCP

PERF
----
- Oprofile
- Linux perf tools in guest

HYPERVISOR
----------
- insmod Xen
- event channel limits
- NUMA

MEMORY
------
- disk based memory sharing
- memory scanner
- paging replacing PoD
- VM Fork
- Copy on read (past VDI boot)


IO
--
- PV OpenGL/Gallium
- PV USB
- PV USB3
- PV SCSI
- PVFB in Xorg
- Infiniband


STORAGE
-------
- gluster/ceph plugins


QEMU
----
- BSD libc
- upstream QEMU stubdoms


TESTS
-----
- better web reporting
- more tests
- upstream linux


DISTROS
-------
- packaging stubdoms
- xen on centos6
- driver domains
- figure out the VM format issue
- XSM in distros



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