Re: GSoC 2026 - QEMU/VMM Accelerator Proposal

I tested the code of Abhinav with the help of Claude and the addition of
some further patch developed by my friend and this is the result :

https://claude.ai/share/afd7eee8-b644-47aa-9ddd-75954bce9c5b

On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 7:00 PM Mario Marietto <[email protected]>
wrote:

> ---> 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.
>


-- 
Mario.