[Rust-VMM] Summer of Code / Outreachy projects

[Cory Maccarrone]

A port seems like a much more tractable project than a rewrite for sure.
The KVM instruction emulator is more or less proven and works, so reason
not to port it I think.  Agreed on the intern project, it would be great
for that.

- Cory

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 10:40 AM Anthony Liguori <aliguori at amazon.com>
wrote:

> Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com> writes:
>
> > On 17/01/19 19:07, Cory Maccarrone wrote:
> >> One suggestion I might make would be a rust-implemented instruction
> >> emulator for cracking open MMIOs.  Seems useful for VMMs in general to
> me.
> >
> > That's part of the plans indeed, but the support for userspace MMIO
> > emulation is not in upstream KVM yet.
>
> We you thinking a straight port of emulate.c to Rust or something from
> scratch?
>
> I think a port is interesting as an intern project.  I think a new
> emulator from scratch is a bit unrealistic as an intern project.
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori
>
> >
> > Paolo
> >
> >> On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 10:07 AM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com
> >> <mailto:pbonzini at redhat.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     QEMU would be glad to host projects related to VMMs in Rust as part
> of
> >>     Google summer of Code and Outreachy.  This includes all of
> Firecracker,
> >>     CrosVM and common infrastructure that could be reused by multiple
> >>     virtual machine monitors; with my QEMU hat, I would obviously favor
> the
> >>     latter :)).
> >>
> >>     An idea could be to migrate Firecracker and CrosVM to the Fuchsia
> crates
> >>     that were mentioned early here on the mailing list, and/or
> implement a
> >>     sample vhost-user client using whatever standard set of crates are
> >>     established.  Another possibility is PCI and virtio-pci in
> Firecracker.
> >>
> >>     Thanks,
> >>
> >>     Paolo
> >>
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