Hi,

I am a graduate student studying at the Carnegie Mellon University doing my major in Information Networking. For the fall 2004 semester I am taking a course that requires me to do a project course on Operating Systems.

I am interested in virtualization even though I don’t have any practical experience in it. I have done a bit of kernel hacking previously (linux kernel 2.4) and am currently reading the NFSv3/v4 related code in 2.6. I am also familiar with the VFS and block device layer code in 2.6.

The course project that I am doing is a 2 person project spanning over 3.5 months. It is not a research project but rather one which is geared towards implementation.

Going with my interests, I would like to contribute to Xen through this semester long project. Sorry for the spam but I really thought this was the only way I could reach to all Xen developers and get their views/suggestions.

I have gone through Xen's To-Do list and find the CoW filesystem project interesting. The site just mentions a couple of lines about the project. Is this project already been taken by anyone? Could someone please elaborate a bit on the requirements? I do realize that Bin Ren has done some work on Copy-On-Write Multi-Disk block device. I am also interested in other projects like CPU load balancing, x86_64 Xen port.

Do these projects (or are there any other projects) that fit the given resources and time-frame? I understand that there will be a lot of code comprehension to be done and hence have posted this email in advance of to the fall semester.

Thanks a lot for your time and patience reading this long email :)