From owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Thu Mar 24 13:44:05 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EE46ADC098 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 13:44:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fabian.freyer@physik.tu-berlin.de) Received: from mail.tu-berlin.de (mail.tu-berlin.de [130.149.7.33]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EA63F171C for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 13:44:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fabian.freyer@physik.tu-berlin.de) X-tubIT-Incoming-IP: 130.149.58.163 Received: from mail.physik-pool.tu-berlin.de ([130.149.58.163] helo=mail.physik.tu-berlin.de) by mail.tu-berlin.de (exim-4.76/mailfrontend-7) with esmtp for id 1aj5YQ-0001bk-0B; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 14:44:03 +0100 Received: from [130.149.58.170] (firefox.physik-pool.tu-berlin.de [130.149.58.170]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.physik.tu-berlin.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2F18C56ED for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 13:44:00 +0000 (UTC) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: Fabian Freyer Subject: [GSOC 2016] Introduction and proposal X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <56F3EF1F.4030909@physik.tu-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 14:43:59 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/38.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 13:44:05 -0000 Hi! First of all, I would like to introduce myself: My name is Fabian Freyer, I am a physics student at the TU Berlin where I have been working as a FreeBSD Sysadmin for about 3 years. I am fluent in C and python and am interested in OS development; in fact I have been working on a toy operating system and boot loader as a side project for a while now. I enjoy playing CTFs and am working on my skills at reading and writing x86, amd64 and arm assembly. I have not yet participated in a GSOC due to other projects, but would like to participate this year. I started using bhyve with libvirt around a year ago to play around with, and have been using it as my main supervisor on server and development systems since; especially the debugging interface has proven useful to me on many occasions. I could imagine working on one or more of the following projects, since these are all features I would like to see in bhyve: 1) Implementing suspend / resume / snapshot behaviour for bhyve vm's 2) Going further from 1) implementing porcelain for migrating zvol-backed bhyve guests using zfs-send and moving state between hypervisors 3) Working on better libvirt support for bhyve. However, I haven't yet had much contact with hypervisor code. I have started looking into SimpleVisor [1] and the usr.sbin/bhyve/ source. I would greatly appreciate some guidance in that direction. Fabian Freyer Links: [1] - https://github.com/ionescu007/SimpleVisor -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?