Re: Call for GSoC and Outreachy project ideas for summer 2023

[Stefano Garzarella]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 11:53:03AM -0500, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Feb 2023 at 11:23, Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Hi Stefan,
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 10:17:40AM -0500, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > >Dear QEMU, KVM, and rust-vmm communities,
> > >QEMU will apply for Google Summer of Code 2023
> > >(https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/) and has been accepted into
> > >Outreachy May 2023 (https://www.outreachy.org/). You can now
> > >submit internship project ideas for QEMU, KVM, and rust-vmm!
> > >
> > >Please reply to this email by February 6th with your project ideas.
> >
> > sorry for being late, if there is still time I would like to propose the
> > following project.
> >
> > Please, let me know if I should add it to the wiki page.
>
> Hi Stefano,
> I have added it to the wiki page:
> https://wiki.qemu.org/Internships/ProjectIdeas/VsockSiblingCommunication

Great, thanks!

> I noticed that the project idea describes in words but never gives
> concrete details about what sibling VM communication is and how it
> should work. For someone who has never heard of AF_VSOCK or know how
> addressing works, I think it would help to have more detail: does the
> vhost-user-vsock program need new command-line arguments that define
> sibling VMs, does a { .svm_cid = 2, .svm_port = 1234 } address usually
> talk to a guest but the TO_HOST flag changes the meaning and you wish
> to exploit that, etc? I'm not suggesting making the description much
> longer, but instead tweaking it with more concrete details/keywords so
> someone can research the idea and understand what the tasks will be.

You are right, I will add more details/keywords to make it clearer.

Thanks,
Stefano