Timeline

Table of Contents Office hours Project Plan April March February May June July

Office hours

• Daniel, room EG106b
• Friday, 10-12, 12-20

Project Plan

April

• 5 - 12 April
  • Get patches from Psomas repo (git@github.com:psomas/lguest64.git) and check the redhat one (git://git.et.redhat.com/kernel-lguest-64.git ??)
  • Read Guest part of lguest code
• 29 - 5 April
  • DB: to add a complete timeline for implementing lguest
  • virtio infrastructure
  • paravirt ops

March

• 8 - 15 March
  • read documentation about character device drivers
  • identify the source code that creates /dev/lguest device
  • add documentation about running lguest on x86
  • try to patch lguest Makefile to rapidly start working with lguest
    • add a target run that starts lguest
    • add a target build_image (?) that creates a root fs.
  • identify the source for the message "Bad address" when halting lguest -> please see comments in function emulate_insn from drivers/lguest/x86/core.c (line 260)

February

• 22 February - 1 March
  • clone github repo
  • browse documentation
  • compile and run lguest for x86

May

June

July