Hi All,
I'll be on holiday (moving house) next week so I won't be able to chair the Stratos sync meeting. As it is the middle of summer I'm going to propose we skip next weeks sync and re-convene on the 3rd of August. Any objections?
While on the subject of sync meetings are there any topics to discuss. We've had some discussions on next rust-vmm device to implement but beyond a vague "maybe virtio-gpu to help with demos" I don't think we've nailed it down. virtio-can also keeps getting mentioned and while useful I'm wary it's not pushing our exploration of the possibilities of virtio further.
I did a talk at GST22 last week which was an overview of VirtIO and what we had done so far as well as discussing some future directions. You can see the talk at:
https://huawei-events.de/en/gsts22-j83dco-vod.htm (Day 2 stream, Chapter 6/TS 05:13:00)
In it potential future areas of exploration where:
Improve Xen API ═══════════════
• More standard mmap • direct irqfd/eventfd routing
Memory Isolation ════════════════
• fat virtqueue • iommu/grants vs regions (x-over with pKVM/CCA?)
Bare metal rust ═══════════════
• re-use exiting VirtIO logic • but without POSIX layer
I'd like to get a better steer on what we should focus on next after we've demoed our existing rust-vmm daemons and the Xen vhost-master work.