Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Project selection

Wanting to continue with systemtap, we came up with this idea of instrumenting XEN or KVM for project 2. Quoting my mentor " writing useful tapsets that one can use to write meaningful scripts to instrument or gather information from the
running guest."

Mr. Masami Hiramatsu Kindly pointed out the VESPER project which is a framework to gather the state of guest kernel.
It looks as if they would like to support systemtap.

The thread on the systemtap mailing list regarding the same can be found here.

I would be really grateful to have some feedback regarding this.

7 comments:

Ankit Guglani said...

Good to see you still continuing with the blog, post GSoC.

As to which project, pick the one which you think will be more fun. If you get stuck doing something that's not quite like what you wanted it's a job. If you end up with the one you like, it'll be both pleasurable and better done.

If you want a more "quantitative" analysis, you might want to write a post weighing the pros and the cons of each project.

satya said...

Hey Ankit! Thanks :)

Siddhant said...

is that comment *really* from the Ankit we met at rajouri?! khulasa karein... :)

satya said...

Hey Siddhant.. yep.. I guess :D

Siddhant said...

doesn't seem like... :D

satya said...

hehe

Ankit Guglani said...

@Siddhant, so much for first impressions ...