This week I was once again mostly preoccupied with arranging continuing funding. If approved, this will be the biggest funding allocation Spectrum has ever had, but with that comes a corresponding increase in the work required to make it happen. I also spent some time fixing Nixpkgs build issues that would affect Spectrum in future. That doesn't mean there hasn't been any exciting Spectrum work this week, though. Demi, whose name you may recognize from her extensive past work on Qubes OS, submitted a patch to the VIRTIO specification to add interrupt remapping capabilities to virtio-iommu on x86_64. This is an important requirement for being able to move implementations of virtual devices into their own VMs, which will in turn enable running hardware drivers in VMs rather than on the host, and it has been a longstanding wish list item in Spectrum's upcoming projects list[1]. It's very exciting to have somebody as knowledgeable as Demi working towards Spectrum's goals. [1]: https://pad.lassul.us/s/mDfFPvHjA#Cloud-Hypervisor-support-interrupt-remappi... BTW: From next week onwards, I think I'll start sending these updates only to discuss@, not devel@, because I don't think it makes sense to duplicate them.