Hi all,
When we had an informal compartmentalization dinner at NixCon, one thing
that we talked about a lot was how to communicate the ongoing work
happening in Spectrum, make it easier for people to get familiar with
how the project works etc. And the suggestion that really seemed to
vibe with people there was development streams / videos, which have
worked well for projects like Serenity OS and Asahi Linux.
It’s been a while since then, but in the background myself and some
collaborators have been working on setting everything up to be able to
do consistent, high quality Spectrum development streams. I’ve done
three so far this year, and I plan to keep going at that sort of pace.
So far, on stream I’ve been working on implementing support for sharing
files with VMs using the XDG File Chooser Portal.
Streams are broadcast on
https://live.qyliss.net/
And recordings are available at
https://diode.zone/c/spectrum/
Currently, there’s no schedule, as it’s usually hard for me to stick to
that sort of thing, and I want to get into the rythym of just streaming
frequently when I can before I even attempt that. But I’ll try to do
some scheduled streams in future if I can, because I know that would
make it easier for people to join in. For now, you can be notified when
streams start via browser notifications or ActivityPub.
Thanks to everbody who suggested this and helped me get set up for it,
and I hope this and other things I’m doing (like a proper release of the
Cloud Hypervisor patches) make the project seem more alive and vibrant
in 2024. :)
Alyssa
Hi,
For the past while, I've been maintaining a patchset for Cloud
Hypervisor that makes it possible to use crosvm’s virtio-gpu
implementation over vhost-user to provide a virtual GPU device to Cloud
Hypervisor guests.
It’s likely not upstreamable, especially as-is, but given there’s demand
for this[1][2], and some other people have already started using my
patches, I figured it was worth releasing them properly.
The patches, along with more information, are available at:
https://spectrum-os.org/software/cloud-hypervisor
I’ve been keeping them up to date with new releases of Cloud Hypervisor,
and expect to continue to do that.
The patchset is developed and maintained as part of Spectrum[3], a
project to create a compartmentalized desktop operating system.
I’m not sure where the best place will be to announce updated versions
of the patchset yet. Spectrum Discuss mailing list? Cloud Hypervisor
list? A new one? Feedback very welcome.
Get in touch if you have any questions,
Alyssa
