QEMU participates in open source internship programs including Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and Outreachy. These full-time remote work opportunities allow talented new developers to get involved in our community. This post highlights what our interns achieved in 2018.

QEMU is once again participating in Google Summer of Code and Outreachy this year! These open source internship programs offer full-time remote work opportunities for talented new developers wishing to get involved in our community.

micro:bit emulation support is available from QEMU 4.0 onwards and can be used for low-level software testing and development. Unlike existing micro:bit simulators, QEMU performs full-system emulation and actually runs the same ARM code as the real hardware. This blog post explains what full-system emulation means and why QEMU is now a useful tool for developing micro:bit software.

QEMU (https://www.qemu.org/) emulates a large number of network cards, disk controllers, and other devices needed to simulate a virtual computer system, called the “guest”.

QEMU is participating in Google Summer of Code 2020 again this year! Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is an internship program that brings students into open source development. GSoC offers full-time remote work opportunities for talented new developers wishing to get involved in our community.

QEMU is applying to Google Summer of Code 2021 and is participating in Outreachy May-August 2021. Both of these open source internship programs offer remote work opportunities for new developers wishing to get involved in our community.

QEMU has been accepted into Google Summer of Code 2021 and we look forward to mentoring talented students from around the world as they make open source contributions this summer. GSoC is a remote work open source internship program where students work on a project for an open source organization like QEMU.

Caches are a key way that enables modern CPUs to keep running at full speed by avoiding the need to fetch data and instructions from the comparatively slow system memory. As a result understanding cache behaviour is a key part of performance optimisation.

We have great news to share: QEMU has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2022 organization! Google Summer of Code is an open source internship program offering paid remote work opportunities for contributing to open source. The internship runs from June 13th to September 12th.

This summer I worked on adding Zoned Block Device (ZBD) support to virtio-blk as part of the Outreachy internship program. QEMU hasn’t directly supported ZBDs before so this article explains how they work and why QEMU needed to be extended.

QEMU is participating in Google Summer of Code and Outreachy again this year! Google Summer of Code and Outreachy are open source internship programs that offer paid remote work opportunities for contributing to open source. Internships generally run May through August, so if you have time and want to experience open source development, read on to find out how you can apply.