gsoc March 2015

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Xen in a Box Proposal
by Gautam Malu 16 Apr '15

16 Apr '15

Hi everyone, I am a masters student at IIIT- Hyderabad, India. I have submitted my GSOC proposal for Xen in a Box. I would be great to have some suggestions especially about the porting of xapi on CentOS Abstract: My project goal is to deliver set of scripts preferrably in bash, along with all necessay packages to convert standared installers ISOs into customized ISOs which install CentOS 6 + xen + libvirt + 2 pv VMs running + network configuration. I also plan to deliver xapi rpms which can be used to build a custom installer ISO to install CentOS 6 + xen + xapi. Full proposal: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/public/google/gsoc2015/gautam_m… Best regards, Gautam Malu

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xapi on CentOS 6
by Gautam Malu 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

Hi, I am a masters student at IIIT Hyderabad. I have applied for gsoc 2015, for xen in a box proposal. As a part of my proposal,I want to deliver xapi repo which can be used to build a custom installer ISO to install CentOS 6 + xen + xapi. Here is my full proposal http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/public/google/gsoc2015/gautam_m… About building xapi packages for CentOS; I was able to build all xenserver packages with xenserver build root. (https://github.com/xenserver/buildroot) on CentOS 6.6 . This buildroot uses Xen4CentOS repo for xen packages, but it uses custom repo for Ocaml(4.01). The Base repo for CentOS 6.6 have ocaml 3.11. This buildroot required Ocaml 4.x. The gsoc would start in May end, if Ocaml 4.x packages are ready by then, Those could be used to build xapi. Is there any plan to have xapi as part of virt SIG. Is there any time-line for having ocaml 4.x packages in CentOS offical repo. Best regards, Gautam Malu

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kpatch irc log 2015-03-30
by Corey Henderson 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

Some more musings this evening. kragniz cormander: evening cormander howdy kragniz how was your weekend? cormander great cormander opening weekend at the local amusement park kragniz nice kragniz I was at a hackathon making horrible sounding music cormander can't say i'v ever done that kragniz it was a fun 24 hours, but I don't think I'd want to listen to the output for a long period of time! cormander any more Q's on what to do for kpatch? any actual implementation done? kragniz no implementation done yet - where would you suggest I start? kragniz I was a little hesitant to start writing code before I'd received some acks from more people in terms of the overall design cormander not sure if others around have a vested technical interest in the details cormander I'd say, start withing making the /proc/version patch into an rpm cormander for fun, append "-kpatch-foo" to the current version kragniz that sounds like a great idea kragniz building that rpm by hand? kragniz also, a related question - is it okay to do development work on fedora? cormander go for it cormander as long as the end result works on EL7 kragniz yup kragniz I don't see any potential problems with it, other than maybe different library versions cormander kragniz: one thing you can mull over in your free time cormander is a naming schema for the patches cormander things get a little dicey when a single module contains multiple patches

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Reminder - initial proposal deadline (27 March 19:00 UTC)
by Karsten Wade 26 Mar '15

26 Mar '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 We just rolled under the 24 hour mark for you to get your initial proposals in. The main thing is to get even a rough draft in to the system. For the next few weeks mentors will continue to work with you on refining your proposal. But it has to be in the system by the deadline. Working on the proposals this way is an important part of how the mentors will see you and your potential. Remember that this is open source development -- we have ways of doing things that may be new to you, such as turning in unfinished proposals and working openly on mailing lists/in Melange to improve your proposals. All of this is part of how open source projects work. Regards, - - Karsten - -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade .^\ CentOS Doer of Stuff http://TheOpenSourceWay.org \ http://community.redhat.com @quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v' gpg: AD0E0C41 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlUUWP0ACgkQ2ZIOBq0ODEEqeACfWQVGvccHuYZs57bYKW9F1ZGC eJUAoJmGXg6kQhli1GnqIN3YOojzdopc =7RL2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Hello!
by Mark Murnane 26 Mar '15

26 Mar '15

My name is Mark Murnane, I am a Computer Engineering major at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, in my Junior year. I have been working for three years now as a system administrator for our Com Sci department, where I provide Redhat desktops and server infrastructure. I've been working for a while now moving our legacy server environment from Solaris zones to Linux containers(under Docker), and am extremely interested in the project to create a yum plugin to manage containers. I am now very familiar with the current container tools and workflows, and know that distribution is something of a weak spot with current solutions. I also have a few questions about the project: The project description on the ideas page mentions that a 'yum upgrade container' command would be unnecessary. We rely heavily on container versioning, and generally prefer the encapsulation provided by replacing containers wholesale. Would a solution that supports updates be undesirable? The description only mentions Docker, but other systems for managing containers are available. Would a solution that supports multiple systems be allowed? I know that since version 218 systemd has supported using docker images directly. I don't believe it would be difficult to allow multiple systems to be configured. Thanks! -Mark

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Feedback for GSOC2015 proposal
by Saket Sinha 25 Mar '15

25 Mar '15

Hi, I would like to participate to Google Summer of Code 2015 by contributing to Rootfs build factory implementation under the guidance of Jim Perrin. This is to seek feedback from the development community for the same. My proposal can be found at the below link - http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/public/google/gsoc2015/disdi/58… Regards, Saket Sinha

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kpatch delivery proposal
by Louis Taylor 25 Mar '15

25 Mar '15

Hi all, I'm a student at Aberystwyth University in Wales, United Kingdom. I've been working on a proposal for kpatch delivery, which you can read here: https://kragniz.eu/kpatch.txt I'd love it if you could have a read through and point out any potential problems with it. Cheers, Louis

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Re: [CentOS-gsoc] Self Introduction & Interested in Implement and create new documentation toolchain
by Lei Yang 24 Mar '15

24 Mar '15

Karsten Wade: Thank you very much for your reply! I have improved the proposal following the mentors' advice, and I will join the centos-docs mailing list and take part in the discussion. Also, I have a question. Should I add my personal coding experience and information to the proposal? Best regards, Lei Yang

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GSoC - Xen based Hypervisor in a Box
by Emil Condrea 24 Mar '15

24 Mar '15

Hello, I am Emil Condrea, student in 4h year at Faculty of Computer Science in Iasi, Romania. I am an enthusiastic developer fascinated by low level programming. Since two years ago I started to do research about kernel programming. For the final thesis I wanted to improve the existing code in open source community rather than reinventing the wheel so I combined security with virtualization and kernel programming. I am developing new features to Xen virtual TPMs. Also, I am going to send patches to tpm library trousers so others can use the new features I implemented at kernel level. I wrote this in C. I can give you more details about it if you are interested. I am writing this email because I want to write a proposal for Xen based Hypervisor in a box <http://wiki.centos.org/GSoC/2015/Ideas#head-ecb615be72e53950f08df9280902072…> . I want to be a part of this project because I am very focused on virtualization and security and this is what I want to work in the future. Regarding my experience: I am working since 3 years ago at Bitdefender as Antispam Engines Developer (C/C++). Also, I have 6 years of experience on web development. You can see more details on my website: http://emilcondrea.com I am really looking forward for your reply in order to know if you think I am the right person for this project. From your point of view is it ok to write proposal right now or should I contact the mentor first? Thank you, Emil Condrea.

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Self Introduction & Interested in Implement and create new documentation toolchain
by 杨垒 24 Mar '15

24 Mar '15

Hi everyone! I am a student from School of EECS, Peking University, Beijing, China. I am interested in contributing to the Implement and create new documentation toolchain. I’ve done some small Python projects with my friend, and I am quite familiar with Git and GitHub. Previously I contributed to Ghost by translating the documentation to Chinese and found out GitHub is an excellent place to store, version and distribute docs. I myself is using GitHub Pages to build my personal site. Also, I am a MarkDown lover, so it will be great if I could take part in this project and use MarkDown as the main writing format. When using CentOS and other Linux distributions, I search for solutions of google and get most answers on StackOverflow and personal blogs. It would be great if everyone can contribute docs to a centralized place, using some fixed format, so users can look for answers quickly and easily. Thanks Lei Yang

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