Re: GSoC 2026 - QEMU/VMM Accelerator Proposal

On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 5:23 AM shane Cardoz M <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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.
>

 If he's willing to do that, great! It would be good to see his work make it
into the tree. There's one or two minor issues, I'm told.

If Abhinav would be willing to be a mentor, I'll make the time to be
co-mentor
and oversee this as well as run interference as needed to help get things
into the tree.

Warner