KVM Forum 2016

KVM Forum 2016

The 9th edition of the KVM Forum, KVM Forum 2016, was held from 24 to 26 August at the Westin Harbor Castle, Toronto, Canada. It was co-located with LinuxCon NA 2016.

Live Updates

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Videos and Slides

Wednesday - August 24, 2016

Wednesday Morning

• Experience in Developing a Driver for a Complex New Hardware Device on Qemu/KVM - Knut Omang (video, slides)
• Real Time KVM - Rik van Riel (slides)
• Performant Security Hardening of KVM - Steve Rutherford (video, slides)

Wednesday Afternoon

• Securely Integrating QEMU with Open Source Virtualization Technology - Daniel Berrage (video, slides)
• Userland Page Faults and Byond: Why, How and What's Next - Andrea Arcangeli
• An Introduction to PCI Device Assignment with VFIO - Alex Williamson (video, slides)
• Kernel Protection Using Hardware-Based Virtualization - Jun Nakajima & Sainath Grandhi (video, slides)
• A Practical Look at QEMU's Block Layer Primitives - Kashyap Chamarthy (slides)

Thursday - August 25, 2016

Thursday Morning

• Keynote: KVM Status Report - Paolo Bonzini (video, slides)
• Virtualization Developer Panel - Moderated by Stefan Hajnoczi (video)
• vGPU on KVM - A VFIO Based Framework - Neo Jia & Kirti Wankhede (video, slides)
• VMBus (Hyper-V) devices in QEMU/KVM - Roman Kagan (slides)
• QEMU Support for the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture - Sagar Karandikar (slides)
• Dirty Memory Tracking for Performant Checkpointing Solutions - Lei Cao (slides)
• QEMU Graphics Update 2016 - Gerd Hoffmann

Thursday Afternoon

• Quo Vadis Virtio? - Michael Tsirkin (slides)
• Jobs and Unemployment in the New QEMU Economy - John Snow (slides)
• Design of Vhost-pci - Wei Wang (slides)
• I/O Prefetch Cache as QEMU Block Filter Driver - Pavel Butsykin (slides)
• AMD's Virtualization Memory Encryption Technology - Thomas Lendacky (slides)
• Backups with QEMU - Max Reitz (slides)
• TCG Enhancements for PowerPC - Nikunj Dadhania (slides)
• Microsoft Failover Clustering on KVM - Vadim Rozenfeld (slides)
• Keynote: Libvirt Status Report - Jiri Denemark (video, slides)
• Lightening Talks
  • High Performance Networking in Virtual Machines - Xiyue Wang (video, [ slides])

Friday - August 26, 2016

Friday Morning

• Keynote: QEMU Status Report - Alexander Graf (video, slides)
• QEMU Community Growth Through Open Source Internships - Stefan Hajnoczi (video, slides)
• Painless Switch from Proprietary Hypervisor to QEMU/KVM - Den Lunev (video, slides)
• QEMU Coroutines, Exposed - Jeff Cody
• KVM on System z: The Good, the Bad and the Weird - Cornelia Huck (slides)
• Atomic.h weapons: The C11 Memory Model and QEMU - Paolo Bonzini (slides)
• Light Weight Virtualization with QEMU/KVM - Chao Peng (slides)

Friday Afternoon

• Machine-type Introspection and Configuration: Where Are We Going? - Eduardo Habkost (slides)
• Real Time & Fast Live Migration Update for NFV - Liang Li (slides)
• CPU Hotplug Support in QEMU - Bharata Rao & David Gibson (slides)
• Vhost with Guest vIOMMU - Peter Xu and Wei Xu (slides)
• Nesting KVM on s390x - David Hildenbrand (slides)
• Status Update on KVM-COLO RT - Hailang Zhang (slides)
• As Time Goes By, Analysing Where We Spend Our Cycles During Exits - Christian Bornträger (slides)
• Qemu as a USB-MTP Responder - Bandan Das (slides)
• NVDIMM Virtualization - Xiao Guangrong (slides)
• Libvirt Admin API - A Different Kind of Management for libvirt - Erik Skultety (slides)

Schedule

https://kvmforum2016.sched.org/

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