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Dominant language: Rust
License: MPL-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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192 open issues indexed

Extend vsock to be migratable Open

enhancement migration

oxidecomputer/propolis#1065 · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 27, 2026
propolis-cli -s is very confused with a port number Open

development

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#1062 · Opened Feb 25, 2026
nvme: Add more validation around feature parameters Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#1061 · Opened Feb 18, 2026
wish instance-ensure body was not logged in a completely unusable way Open

bug

oxidecomputer/propolis#1057 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 11, 2026
phd: we should test NICs Open

networking testing

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#1044 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 6, 2026
nvme: set completion queue EventIdx more carefully Open

enhancement storage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#1043 · Opened Feb 6, 2026
block/file: probably(?) want an aio backend Open

local storage storage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#1042 · Opened Feb 6, 2026
PHD behaves somewhat badly with regards to stdout when SIGINTed Open

bug testing

oxidecomputer/propolis#1040 · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 6, 2026
want PHD `lshw_lifecycle_test` to, uh, actually involve `lshw(1)` in some way Open

bug testing

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#1036 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 5, 2026
Doorbell Buffer fences are inappropriately lax Open

bug

oxidecomputer/propolis#1025 · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 28, 2026
phd: `run_shell_command` got serial echo out of order? Open

testing

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#1024 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 26, 2026
Snapshot restore fails on Intel hosts when intr_shadow is set Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#1013 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 9, 2026
block/file: be more defensive about the backing file Open

enhancement storage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 66/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#1011 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 9, 2026
disks: want to be able to differentiate "kinds" Open

guest-os local storage storage

oxidecomputer/propolis#1004 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 6, 2026
nvme: aggregate interrupts to not flood busy VMs Open

enhancement local storage storage

oxidecomputer/propolis#989 · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 17, 2025
more devices could have lifecycle::Indicator Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#988 · Opened Dec 12, 2025
propolis-standalone(?) virtio NIC migration seems funky Open

migration networking

oxidecomputer/propolis#987 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 12, 2025
nvme: we should limit max MDTS Open

guest-os storage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#986 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 11, 2025
unbound vCPUs make for contentious cyclic juggling in vm_run Open

local storage

oxidecomputer/propolis#984 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 10, 2025
Migration ought to consider block backends more generally Open

migration

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#982 · Opened Dec 9, 2025
NVMe devices don't tolerate migration Open

bug migration

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#981 · Opened Dec 9, 2025
propolis-server HTTP API versioning + phd = ow Open

testing

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#980 · Opened Dec 2, 2025
Address virtio block virtqueue error handling todo Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#970 · Opened Nov 20, 2025
bins: warn if PCI devices have non-zero functions, but no function zero? Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#968 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 18, 2025
Processor frequency in SMBIOS Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#962 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 11, 2025
VMs with more than 254 vCPUs Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#956 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 8, 2025
File based backends should have the ability to send IO metrics to Oximeter Open

enhancement local storage release notes

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#949 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 22, 2025
phd-runner is very sensitive to network issues Open

testing

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#944 · Opened Sep 17, 2025
Want to specify/negotiate virtio queue lengths during instance create Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#942 · Opened Sep 16, 2025
VMs should not have vCPU-many sockets Open

oxidecomputer/propolis#940 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 6, 2025
Investigate file backend performance Open

oxidecomputer/propolis#936 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 26, 2025
Investigate VirtIO queue sizing Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#930 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 14, 2025
Audit new Genoa/Turin Virt Features for Use Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#920 · Opened Aug 6, 2025
X2AVIC Support Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#919 · Opened Aug 6, 2025
Add support for writable p9fs mounts Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#909 · 1 comment · Opened May 28, 2025
Linux guests unable to capture hardware events using `perf record` Open

bug guest-os known issue

oxidecomputer/propolis#894 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 11, 2025
server: VmmHdl appears to be leaked during normal VM shutdown Open

server

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#892 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 2, 2025
propolis-server: want a better accounting of memory Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#890 · Opened Apr 1, 2025
lib: need to decide how to handle client-side versioning of nexus-client Open

migration

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#885 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 25, 2025
lib: Crucible backend must ensure incomplete writes are not lost during migration Open

migration storage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#884 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 19, 2025
phd: add Windows Server 2025 guest OS adapter Open

enhancement guest-os testing

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#881 · Opened Mar 6, 2025
VNC/RFB: pixel formats other than truecolor are not supported Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#868 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 20, 2025
propolis-cli/standalone could pass along VM autodestruct desires Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#867 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 20, 2025
talos linux showing as not ready after using `kexec` during decommissioning Open

customer guest-os

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#842 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 28, 2025
better emulate PM1 registers Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#837 · 8 comments · Opened Jan 23, 2025
Propolis panic during zone uninstall Open

oxidecomputer/propolis#827 · 9 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 14, 2024
server: consider delegating migration payload logging to individual components Open

migration server

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#825 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 12, 2024
PHD FAT volumes aren't recognized by WS2022's in-box FAT driver Open

guest-os testing

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#824 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 11, 2024
propolis-package: produces output that omicron finds cromulent, despite missing propolis-server binary Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#812 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 16, 2024
Softnpu: explore alternatives to DLPI Open

networking

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

oxidecomputer/propolis#798 · Opened Oct 18, 2024

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