GSoC'20 Interested Student: Adding support to Jailhouse Hypervisor

[PRAKHAR BANSAL]

Hi All,

Gentle Reminder,
Please have a look at my email below. It would be great if anyone can help
me with this project.

Thanks & Regards,
Prakhar Bansal
Graduate Student' 20, Computer Engineering
Iowa State University, Ames, IA


On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 11:36 PM PRAKHAR BANSAL <prakharbansal0910 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Jan,
>
> Thanks for the reply. I looked deeper into the libvirt and Jailhouse
> source code and found following two things that seem relevant to the
> project I am interested in.
>
> - Libvirt driver interface at [libvirt.git]
> <https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=tree;hb=HEAD> / src
> <https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=tree;f=src;hb=HEAD> / driver.h
> <https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=blob_plain;f=src/driver.h;hb=HEAD>
> - Jailhouse tool, which is using the ioctl API of the Jailhouse, available
> at https://github.com/siemens/jailhouse/blob/master/tools/jailhouse.c.
>
> With the help of the above two, it looks like, a libvirt driver for the
> Jailhouse can be implemented. Let me know if I am moving in the right
> direction so far.
>
> I have been looking at the other libvirt driver implementations for
> hypervisors like HyperV and VMware to understand their implementation and
> learn from there.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Prakhar Bansal
> Graduate Student' 20, Computer Engineering
> Iowa State University, Ames, IA
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 3:07 AM Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka at siemens.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Prakhar,
>>
>> On 23.03.20 07:53, PRAKHAR BANSAL wrote:
>> > Hello All,
>> >
>> > My name is Prakhar Bansal and I am a graduate student in Computer
>> > Engineering at Iowa State University, US.
>> > I have experience with Analysing Performance of Applications running
>> > inside multiple virtual machines hosted by the libvirt QEMU-KVM through
>> > virt-manager.
>> >
>> > I am interested in working on the project to develop a Libvirt driver
>> > for the Jailhouse hypervisor. I looked into the initial attempt on the
>> > Jailhouse driver which seems to be based on the Jailhouse command-line
>> > interface. I am currently looking into learning and understanding the
>> > kernel APIs for jailhouse hypervisor.
>>
>> Thanks for your interest!
>>
>> > I followed the below articles mentioned by Valentine Sinitsyn to begin
>> > learning about the Jailhouse hypervisor.
>> >
>> > https://lwn.net/Articles/578295/
>> > https://lwn.net/Articles/578852/
>> >
>> > I have a few questions regarding this project, please let me know if
>> > someone can help me out.
>>
>> Sure, go ahead. Depending on the scope of the question, libvirt might be
>> the better community to ask. Therefore, I'm adding its list to this
>> thread.
>>
>> Jan
>>
>> >
>> > Thanks & Regards,
>> > Prakhar Bansal
>> >
>>
>> --
>> Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RDA IOT SES-DE
>> Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux
>>
>
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