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Hi George,

I have a few questions I would like to ask.

About - GPU Pass through Project

1. The first thing i want to ask was, what would be the scope of the project. I mean what are the things which i should know before

starting on the project. Is there any material which i should read or some code which i need to understand fully before jumping into the project itself.

2. One question about the project was that, when we say that currently the guests are allowed to use VGA pass through using non-primary display.

Do we mean that the guest requires multiple displays to use the passed through GPU? or I'm missing something here?

3. What would be the setup required for the project. Do I need some different hardware to work on? Also what would be the testing setup

if i start something with the project.

4. What part of the code in Xen should I be targeting for this feature, Also is there anything you want me to get my hands on before working on the

project proposal for GSoC.

About - VM Snapshots Project.

I think the project is quiet clear after reading the details mentioned on this link http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/GSoC_2013#vm-snapshots, but i don't know

whom to contact regarding the same.

I have worked on some kernel programming (for a tiny Operating system) and also some assembly code hacking. Also I have read about hypervisors

but i want to understand and have a look at how things work in real world projects and hence decided to look at Xen. I'd be happy to work on both of the above

projects so, if there's any priority among the development of these projects i'd be happy to work accordingly.

Lastly, If I need to ask anything, Can I ping you on IRC? I mostly hang out on both the ##xen and #xen-opw channels on freenode.

Thanks,

Dushyant

#IRC - theVoodooChild

On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 7:42 PM, George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 02/26/2014 11:35 PM, Dushyant Behl wrote:

Hi All,

I'm very sorry if i mailed at the wrong mailing list.

I'm a master's computer science student very much enthusiastic about the area of Virtualization and Hypervisors and I would like to be a part of the Open Source community by taking part in the GSOC-2014 program with Xen. I have looked at the Xen project ideas and i would be interested to work on them, I am specifically curious about the projects - Allowing guests to boot with a passed-through GPU as the primary display. and VM Snapshots.

I have started by looking into the xen architecture and it'd be great to get some starting points or to get in touch with someone regarding the project. Please help me by suggesting anything regarding the same.

Also I wanted to know if there's a different IRC channel for GSOC, I'm available on the ##xen channel under the nick - theVoodooChild.

Looking forward to any reply.

Sorry for not getting back to you immediately -- did you have any particular questions regarding the projects?

-George

Re: [Xen-devel] GSOC 2014 - Project Queries