Re: GSoC 2026 - QEMU/VMM Accelerator Proposal

---> Hi Shane, Abhinav, and Warner.

Hello to everyone.

As I said,I want to improve the code of Abhinav with the collaboration of a
friend of mine. Should I work on the project alone ? Or is it better to
join efforts ? Let me know.


On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 4:51 PM Joseph Mingrone <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 2026-03-18 at 09:19, Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Hi Shane, Abhinav, and Warner.
>
> That's fantastic.  Thank you Abhinav and Warner.  I'll send invitations
> now to both of you to join the GSoC platform as mentors.
>
> Joe
>


-- 
Mario.