Ethtool Support for Microsoft Hyper-V

Design Task
This project involves integration between two applications: Microsoft Hyper-V, a hypervisor which allows Windows, Linux and other OSes to operate as guest operating systems on top of Windows or "bare metal". Like all hypervisors, Hyper-V allows for the simultaneous operation of multiple operating systems.

ethtool, the second piece of software, is a Linux application designed to display or change Ethernet card settings. It is comprised of two parts: the ethtool client and the ethtool API. The ethtool client is the command-line application executed by end-users. The ethtool API is a part of the Linux kernel, which the client calls. In turn, the API makes calls to the Ethernet card driver, which responds and sends the information back down the API to client chain.

Problem Statement
ethtool is currently unsupported when running under Microsoft Hyper-V. Presently, ethtool will only report whether an Ethernet link is successfully detected. Significant features that currently aren't supported, include: displaying Ethernet device settings, displaying Ethernet card capabilities and changing settings to the device. Additionally, ethtool will typically report the available features of an Ethernet card, when run with no command-line options. However, under Hyper-V, ethtool incorrectly reports that the card has no features.

Design Goals
Our goal is to provide the means for ethtool to properly report, display and change settings for Ethernet cards. This process consists of several parts:


 * 1) The default output must show the supported features of the card.
 * 2) Ethernet device settings must display accurate information.
 * 3) Modifying settings must properly change the setting, or report that it wasn't successful.

Justin Hall
Computer Science Student

Hometown: Lewiston, ID

Bio: Justin is a senior in Computer Science at the University of Idaho, currently pursuing his Bachelors of Science. He spends summers as a freelance front-end Javascript developer, particularly the AngularJS framework. His interests focus on front-end and full-stack web development.

Email: [mailto:hall5714@vandals.uidaho.edu hall5714@vandals.uidaho.edu]



Andrew Schwartzmeyer
Computer Science and Mathematics Student

Hometown: Seattle, WA

Bio: Andrew is a senior undergraduate student in Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Idaho. He is the current chair of the University of Idaho Association of Computing Machinery, and an avid open source developer. He blogs at schwartzmeyer.com, and is interested in Linux systems programming, evolutionary computation, security and cryptography, server administration automation (with Puppet), and functional programming.

Email: [mailto:schw2620@vandals.uidaho.edu schw2620@vandals.uidaho.edu]

Chris Waltrip
Computer Science Student

Hometown: Coeur d'Alene, ID

Bio: Chris is a senior undergraduate in Computer Science at the University of Idaho. He is also a NSF Scholarship for Service (SFS) CyberCorps Student and system administrator for the Center for Secure and Dependable Systems (CSDS). His interests lie in information assurance and network security.

Email: [mailto:walt2178@vandals.uidaho.edu walt2178@vandals.uidaho.edu]