Contributors per cycle
Accepted projects each year, against the median organization that year
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| libvirt | Median organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 4 | 4 |
| 2017 | 1 | 4 |
| 2018 | 2 | 3 |
| 2019 | 3 | 4 |
| 2020 | 4 | 4 |
| 2021 | 1 | 4 |
| 2022 | 2 | 3 |
| 2023 | 0 | 4 |
| 2024 | 2 | 4 |
| 2025 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026 | 0 | 4 |
Last took part in 2024
libvirt
Virtualization abstraction library
Contributors in 2026
–
Not taking part
Projects since 2016
19
2.4 a cycle on average
Cycles
8 of 11
First in 2016
Rank in 2026
–
By contributors
Mentors
2
for 2 projects in 2024
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# Topics
Quick answers
- Is libvirt in GSoC 2026?
- No. It last took part in 2024.
- How long has it taken part?
- 8 of 11 cycles since 2016, first in 2016.
- How many contributors does it usually take?
- 2.4 a cycle on average, 19 in total. Its largest cycle was 2016, with 4.
- What does it build with?
- C, Xen, Qemu, Containers, Kvm, Hypervisor and 3 more.
Accepted projects
2 projects in 2024 · All 19 projects since 2016
QEMU command line generator XML fuzzing
Rayhan FaizelMentored by Michal Prívozník, Martin Kletzander
There are a huge number of potential variants of XML documents that can be fed into libvirt. Only a subset of these are valid for generating QEMU...
QEMU command line generator XML fuzzing
AbhiramMentored by Michal Prívozník, Martin Kletzander
This project is dedicated to the systematic execution of diverse fuzzing techniques employing an array of specialized fuzzers. Its principal goal is...
libvirt-CI: Support for container executions in libvirt's lcitool using a container library binding
Abdulwasiu ApalowoMentored by Erik Skultety, Pavel Hrdina
Libvirt has a tool called lcitool which is used for managing the CI need for libvirt and related projects. Improvements will be made to the system...
Extend reported statistics on given guests
natto1784Mentored by Martin Kletzander, Paolo Bonzini
Since QEMU is gaining introspectable QMP statistics, it will now be possible to fetch more statistics using the QEMU api. This project aims to...
Test driver API coverage
Luke YueMentored by Martin Kletzander, Michal Privoznik
Expand API coverage in the test driver The test driver (as accessed via the test:/// URI scheme) is a fake virt driver designed to let applications...
Introducing Job control to the storage driver
Prathamesh ChavanMentored by Erik Skultety, Martin Kletzander, Michal Prívozník
Currently, libvirt support job cancellation and progress reporting on domains. That is, if there's a long running job on a domain, e.g. migration,...
Libvirt driver for Jailhouse
PrakharMentored by Jan Kiszka, Michal Prívozník
Jailhouse is a lightweight static partitioning hypervisor based on Linux, which is more concerned with isolation than virtualization. It’s able to...
Salt Virt advanced performance tuning support
GUOQING LIMentored by Pavel Hrdina, Akm0d, Cédric Bosdonnat
SaltStackis an open-source software that facilitates configuration management for IT infrastructures. Salt Virt is a component of SaltStack which...
Take migration in Salt virt module to the next level
- Radostin StoyanovMentored by Pavel Hrdina, Akm0d, Cédric Bosdonnat
Salt offers a nice wrapper around libvirt. However the migration functions are calling virsh and not exposing all options. This project is about...
Expand libvirt test driver API coverage
Ilias StamatisMentored by Pavel Hrdina, Erik Skultety
The libvirt library provides a stable API for managing platform virtualization utilizing different hypervisors or virtual machine monitors. Each...
Create Rust bindings for libguestfs
Hiroyuki KatsuraMentored by Martin Kletzander, Richard Jones, Pino Toscano
Libguestfs provides a set of tools for communicating with virtual machine disk images. By using this, you can view or edit a file on almost any disk...
Cloud-init configuration for virt-install/virt-manager
Athina PlaskasovitiMentored by Cole Robinson, Pavel Hrdina, Fabiano Fidêncio
Cloud-init configuration through virt-install/virt-manager input arguments at VM initial setup. Cloud-init is a package that contains utilities for...
Automatic freeing of resources
Sukrit BhatnagarMentored by Pavel Hrdina, Erik Skultety
Writing cleanup code for every variable in large-scale open-source projects makes the code difficult to comprehend. The cleanup tasks like releasing...
Introduce Libiscsi pool
ClemMentored by Pavel Hrdina, Michal Prívozník
Currently there is an iSCSI storage pool in libvirt. However, all the management communication is done by spawning iscsiadm binary. The aim of this...
Ease creation of containers
Radostin StoyanovMentored by Cole Robinson, Cedric Bosdonnat
Creating containers for libvirt LXC driver is a pain since there is no simple way to setup the root file system. A new workflow around container...
Add libvirt support for LXC migration.
Katerina KoukiouMentored by Cédric Bosdonnat, Michal Privoznik
Migration has become an important feature in the virtualization world. In severs, it is used for load balancing, updating and replacing hardware,...
Asynchronous lifecycle events for storage objects
gulicMentored by Cole Robinson
The purpose of the project is to implement asynchronous lifecycle events for libvirt’s storage API. Lifecycle events allow applications to get...
Abstracting device address allocation
Tomasz FlendrichMentored by Martin Kletzander
Libvirt provides a common and stable layer to securely manage domains (instances of operating systems) on a node (single physical machine). When...
Making virsh more bash like
nishithshah2211Mentored by Michal Privoznik
If you have ever used virsh, you certainly reached the point where you struggle with its user friendliness. Virsh is missing a lot of bash...
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Data: Google Summer of Code public archive. Contributor counts are accepted projects.