KVM Forum 2015

KVM Forum 2015

The KVM Forum 2015 was held from August 19-21 at the Sheraton Seattle in Seattle, USA. It was co-located with LinuxCon NA 2015.

Live Updates

Watch the Google+ Group for live updates from the event.

Videos and Slides

Wednesday morning - August 19, 2015

• KVM Forum 2015 - KVM Keynote by Paolo Bonzini (video, slides)
• Real-Time KVM by Rik van Riel (video, slides)
• Real-Time KVM for the Masses by Jan Kiszka (video, slides)
• Virtualizing the Locomotive: Ready, Set, Go! by Mark Kraeling
• Pushing the limits: 1000 guests per host and beyond by Jens Freimann (video, slides)

Wednesday afternoon - August 19, 2015

• Migratable 40GBit/s Ethernet by Alexander Graf (video, slides, animated slides)
• Status update on KVM-COLO HA/FT solution by Hongyang Yang, Eddie Dong and Weidong Han (video, slides)
• virtio-vsock: Zero-configuration host/guest communication by Stefan Hajnoczi (video, slides)
• Using Upstream QEMU for Computer Architecture and Software Studies by Christopher Covington (slides)
• Guest operating system debugging by David Hildenbrand (slides)
• virtio 1 - why do it? and are we there yet? by Michael S. Tsirkin (slides)

Thursday morning - August 20, 2015

• KVM Forum 2015 - QEMU Keynote by Alexander Graf (slides)
• Towards multi-threaded TCG by Alex Bennée and Frederic Konrad (slides)
• KVM Message Passing Performance by David Matlack (slides)
• ARM: Caches that give you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot by Marc Zyngier (video, slides)
• QEMU and OpenGL by Gerd Hoffmann (slides)
• QEMU for Xilinx ZynqMP by Edgar E. Iglesias (video, slides)
• QEMU interface introspection: from hacks to solutions by Markus Armbruster (slides)

Thursday afternoon - August 20, 2015

• CPU hot-plug - status and challenges by Andreas Färber (slides)
• Incremental backups: Good things come in small packages! by John Snow and Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy (video, slides)
• qcow2: why (not)? by Max Reitz and Kevin Wolf (video, slides)
• QEMU Hotplug Infrastructure and Implementing PCI Hotplug for PowerKVM by Michael Roth
• New qemu technology used in virt-v2v by Richard Jones (video, slides)
• Vhost: Sharing is better by Eyal Moscovici and Bandan Das (slides)
• KVM as The NFV Hypervisor by Jun Nakajima (slides)
• Recent improvement in Gluster for VM image storage by Pranith Kumas Karampuri (video, slides)
• KVM live migration optimizations by Liang Li (video, slides)
• Low latency edge computing with QEMU/KVM: Challenges and future by Mihai Caraman
• Migrating NFV Applications to KVM guest by Mario Smarduch (slides)
• Rethinking machine types by David Gibson

Friday morning - August 21, 2015

• KVM Forum 2015 - Libvirt Keynote by Jiří Denemark (slides)
• Backing Chain management in QEMU and libvirt by Eric Blake (slides)
• Libvirt: What did we do wrong? by Michal Privoznik (slides)
• oVirt and Gluster, hyper-converged! by Martin Sivak (slides)
• High performance VMs in OpenStack by Nikola Dipanov (slides)
• kvm-unit-tests: past, present, and future by Andrew Jones (slides)
• The new oVirt Extension API - The 1st step for fully modular oVirt by Martin Perina

Friday afternoon - August 21, 2015

• oVirt host communication - long way from an unpaved road to the highway by Piotr Kliczewski (slides)
• Securing secure boot: system management mode in KVM and Tiano Core by Paolo Bonzini (slides)
• Block Jobs: current status, upcoming challenges by Jeff Cody (slides)
• oVirt self-hosted engine seamless deployment by Simone Tiraboschi (slides)
• Improving the QEMU Event Loop by Fam Zheng (slides)
• Live migration with SR-IOV pass-through by Weidong Han (slides)
• Managed conversion of guests to oVirt by Arik Hadas (slides)
• ARM interrupt virtualization by Andre Przywara (slides)
• oVirt SR-IOV support by Barak Azulay (slides)
• Using IPMI in QEMU by Corey Minyard (slides)

Tutorials

• Avocado: Next generation virt testing by Cleber Rosa (video, slides)
• Getting Started with Coccinelle (KVM edition) by Julia Lawall (video, slides)

Schedule

http://kvmforum2015.sched.org/

BoFs

KVM Forum 2015 BOF