GSOC2010

Introduction

The Linux Application Checkpoint-Restart Project (Linux-CR) aims to get core functionality into the upstream Linux kernel to checkpoint, restart, and migrate applications and Linux Containers.

The Linux-CR project is applying to the 2010 Google Summer of code (GoSC) as a mentoring organization.

Mentors

• Oren Laadan
• Serge Hallyn

We can be found on the containers mailing list or on #lxcontainers on irc.freenode.net.

Project ideas

• Doing the TPM exploitation for signing and verifying images.

• Handling FUSE filesystems, as I imagine those will be desirable for containers.

• better diagnostics tools (improve ckptinfo to give more info, to give stats about objects and the entire image), and also add a visualization tool

• userspace image mangling tools - that allow to change something in the image in a robust way (e.g. change an open file to another file).

• userspace conversion tools (between versions of checkpoint image)

Application Template

* Your Name:
* Email Address:
* State/Country or Time Zone.
* IRC nick:
* Background:
  * Education
  * Previous open source participation
  * Virtualization experience
* Which project are you interested in?  (If you have your own idea related to checkpoint/restart you can list that too)
* Is there a specific reason for choosing the project you did?  (i.e. crypto interest for TPM)
* If you didn't get paid, what if any coding project would you choose to do?