Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC] project proposal

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 18/03/2015 15:53, Catalin Vasile wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My name is Catalin Vasile and I want to participate with a project for
> qemu at GSoC.
> From what I understand from the rules, I can participate with things I
> could also use for my college projects.
> This is my last bachelor year and I'm doing my diploma project, which is
> related to virtualization, more specific qemu-kvm.
> I'm trying to do a paravirtualized device using virtio and vhost.
> I've already done some work.
> To be more exact, I want to make a virtio-crypto device to emulate a
> virtual cryptographic offloading device that will send jobs from the
> guest to a vhost that will process the jobs. This mechanism will link
> CryptoAPI from the guest to the CryptoAPI from the host. This way,
> whatever it's beneath CryptoAPI from the host will be used as offloading
> for the guest.
> Is there a mentor interested in getting involved in this kind of project?

Hi Catalin, what accelerator are you targeting specifically?

Paolo