Virtio Drivers on Dragonfly

Michael Neumann mneumann at ntecs.de
Tue Oct 5 09:46:31 PDT 2010


Am Dienstag, den 05.10.2010, 16:28 +0000 schrieb Pratyush:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> As the Proportional RSS project is on its verge of completion and added to
> dragonfly. I request you guys to grant me permission to move forward with
> implementation of virtio drivers on dragonfly. If a member among us is doing
> this project, I will go for another. 
> 
> I would like to do the virtio project with one of my friend (Sandip Jadhav - CS
> Grad Student Binghamton University ), he too is in dragonfly kernel mailing
> list. This project can give us exposure to device drivers in dragonfly and also
> can convert our conceptual knowledge of virtio to some practical length. I
> thought of doing in a group, so that we can move with a pace suitable for
> further contributions to dragonfly.

Great! I am looking forward to switching my KVM dragonfly box away from
using the emulated disk/network drivers towards using the virtio drivers
once they become reality!

Count me in for testing!

Regards,

  Michael








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