Dear Mentors,

I am currently pursuing Master's in University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA and completed by B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi (IIT- Delhi).

I am interested in contributing to Libvirt community through GSOC 2015. I am using VirtualBox to run Ubuntu and have used VMware Player in the past. Actually I am very interested in understanding virtualization at a more practical level and do not want to limit myself to theoretical knowledge. I have played with QEMU during the OS class, but I am new to Libvirt, and thus would like to start with beginner level projects. There are two that I found:

1. Enhancing libvirt-designer
2. Abstracting device address allocation

Are these projects still open, or students have already applied to them? Are there any other projects that I can start with? I am really excited about contributing to the libvirt project. Please let me know of a suitable way of starting with these. I look forward for a useful engagement with the community this summer. My irc name is: richashi.

Thanks
Richa