Added some issues to the issue tracker

[Jon Larimer]

I added a couple of issues to the issue tracker. One for
multiprocessor support, the other for PAE. I added some ideas for
implementing the features, but you guys may already have a plan for
them.

I can start working on either of them, but I don't want to do
something someone else is already doing or get in the way of the
refactoring that's been going on. If someone gives me the OK, I'll
take a shot at implementation and post a patch to the issue for
review.

-jon

[Roberto Paleari]

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 06:29:28PM -0400, Jon Larimer wrote:
> I added a couple of issues to the issue tracker. One for
> multiprocessor support, the other for PAE. I added some ideas for
> implementing the features, but you guys may already have a plan for
> them.

Currently we are still finishing to refactor the code to make it "100%
VMX-independent", so that if someone wants to add the support for SVM, he
doesn't need to modify all the modules. In a couple of days we plan to start to
include the support for PAE. I don't think it will take too much time.

> I can start working on either of them, but I don't want to do
> something someone else is already doing or get in the way of the
> refactoring that's been going on. If someone gives me the OK, I'll
> take a shot at implementation and post a patch to the issue for
> review.

Another important issue with HyperDbg is that currently it doesn't support USB
keyboards. Unfortunately, many recent desktop PCs don't provide a PS/2
interface, so HyperDbg is pretty useless on them. I think it will be very nice
to have a (minimalistic) HVM-level driver to handle USB keyboards. Moreover,
the development of such a module won't interfere with the refactoring that is
going on.

What do you think about this?

[Jon Larimer]

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Roberto Paleari
<rob...@security.dico.unimi.it> wrote:

> Another important issue with HyperDbg is that currently it doesn't support USB
> keyboards. Unfortunately, many recent desktop PCs don't provide a PS/2
> interface, so HyperDbg is pretty useless on them. I think it will be very nice
> to have a (minimalistic) HVM-level driver to handle USB keyboards. Moreover,
> the development of such a module won't interfere with the refactoring that is
> going on.
>
> What do you think about this?
>

Cool, I'll look into this.
-jon