This is the first week of my internship with QEMU through Outreachy.
What is Outreachy?
Outreachy is an amazing opportunity for those who are underrepresented in the tech industry to work on open source and open science projects under the guidance of experienced mentors. I think most of the applicants are female and are students, but really it's open for everyone who feel disadvantaged to enter the industry.
For myself, I'm a mother of two little boys and I've been putting my career on hold ever since I became a mother. When I wanted to get back to the industry, I needed a little more flexibility which is difficult to get accommodated in the traditional style workplaces in my home country. Therefore I'm so grateful for Outreachy for providing me this opportunity to work remotely on such an interesting project as QEMU.
What is QEMU?
QEMU is an open source machine emulator. It can emulate plethora of architectures ranging from x86, ARM, PowerPC, you name it, it probably can emulate. It can emulate full system such as a Xilinx development board or a Raspberry PI.
For the duration of the internship I'll work on a project "Extend QEMU Storage Daemon, supporting the new Linux's userspace block driver (ublk) framework".
I hope to update here frequently about what I learned and share the knowledge with others who are new to QEMU the same as me.
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