Re: GSoC 2026 - QEMU/VMM Accelerator Proposal

Hi Joe,

Thank you for checking with John Baldwin.

I am familiar with Abhinav Chavali's work. He was last year's GSoC 
contributor for VMM(4) accelerator support for QEMU, and he has been 
informally mentoring me since January, helping me understand the 
codebase architecture and the current state of the implementation.

Through this, I found that there are still some open issues worth 
tackling:{ multi-core SMP support is currently broken, there are memory 
segment limitations that cause crashes on VM reset, and the 
implementation is tied to the i440fx chipset} which limits compatibility 
with newer machine types. I have also fixed a few bugs in QEMU related 
to the VMM backend during this time.

I also wanted to ask, is it possible for a past GSoC contributor like 
Abhinav to serve as an official mentor for this year's project? That 
would make things much more straightforward given that he is already 
guiding me.

Thanks again for your time and help.

Best regards,
Shane