KVM Forum 2013

KVM Forum 2013

The KVM Forum 2013 will be held from October 21-22, 2013 at the Sheraton Grand Hotel in Edinburgh. It is co-located with LinuxCon Europe 2013.

The talks will be streamed live via Google Hangouts / Youtube and the recordings will be available immediately after the talks finish.

Schedule

Monday, October 21st

Time	Title	Speaker
09:00am	Keynote	Gleb Natapov, Red Hat
09:15am	Modern QEMU Device Emulation	Andreas Färber, Suse
10:30am	How Closely Do We Model Real Hardware in QEMU?	Anthony Liguori, Amazon
11:15am	Virgil3D - Virtio Based 3D Capable GPU	Dave Airlie, Red Hat

	Track 1		Track 2
Time	Title	Speaker	Title	Speaker
1:00pm	Introduction to z/Architecture and KVM on System z	Jens Freimann, IBM	Static system partitioning and KVM	Jan Kiszka, Siemens Corporate Technology
1:45pm	Crossing the Endianness Bridge (Or a Foolish Attempt at Mixed-Endian Virtualization)	Marc Zyngier, ARM	VGA Assignment Using VFIO	Alex Williamson, Red Hat
2:30pm	Find Your Way Through the (x86) Firmware Maze	Gerd Hoffmann, Red Hat	Platform Device Passthrough Using VFIO	Stuart Yoder, Freescale Semiconductor
3:30pm	Nested Virtualization: Shadow Turtles	Orit Wasserman, Red Hat	Developments in KVM on Power	Paul Mackerras, IBM
4:00pm	Nested EPT to Make Nested VMX Faster	Gleb Natapov, Red Hat	Running Windows 8 on top of Android with KVM	Zhi Wang, Intel
4:30pm	Lessons learned from OSv	Avi Kivity & Glauber Costa, Cloudius	QEMU Summit	QEMU Community Leaders

Tuesday, October 22nd

Time	Title	Speaker
09:00am	Keynote	Anthony Liguori, Amazon
9:15am	Effective Multi-Threading in QEMU	Paolo Bonzini, Red Hat
10:30am	Block Layer Status Report	Stefan Hajnoczi & Kevin Wolf, Red Hat
11:15am	An Introduction to OpenStack and its use of KVM Virtualization	Daniel Berrange, Red Hat

	Track 1		Track 2		Track 3
Time	Title	Speaker	Title	Speaker
1:00pm	RDMA Live Migration and RDMA Fault Tolerance	Michael Hines, IBM	Implementing New Block Drivers: A QEMU Developer Primer	Jeff Cody, Red Hat	New Developments and Advanced Features in the Libvirt Management API	Daniel Berrange, Red Hat
1:45pm	COLO: COarse-grained LOck-stepping Virtual Machines	Will Auld, Intel & Xiaowei Yang, Huawei	Toward QCOW2 Deduplication	Benoît Canet, Nodalink	Empowering Data Center Virtualization Using KVM	Livnat Peer, Red Hat
2:30pm	One Year Later: And There are Still Things to Improve in Migration!	Juan Quintela, Red Hat Block	Device Configuration Done Right	Markus Armbruster & Kevin Wolf, Red Hat	Kimchi: Simplified KVM Management	Adam Litke, IBM
3:30pm	Experiments in Enabling Automated Migration Testing	Amit Shah, Red Hat	High Performance Network I/O for Virtual Machines	Giuseppe Lettieri, Ingegneria dell'Informazione: Elettronica, Informatica, Telecomunicazioni	Providing Quality of Service for VMs in oVirt	Martin Sivak, Red Hat
4:00pm	Debugging Live Migration	Alexander Graf, SUSE	Virtio and KVM Networking: Status Update and Plans	Michael S. Tsirkin, Red Hat	You Want How Much Space? Virtualisation at Keele, and How Not To Do It	Martin Goldstone, Keele University
4:30pm	Automatic Memory Ballooning	Luiz Capitulino, Red Hat	Efficient and Scalable Virtio	Abel Gordon, IBM Research	Linux Storage Stack for the Cloud	Yeela Kaplan, Red Hat
5:00pm	QEMU Development and Testing Automation Using MS HCK	Anton Nayshtut, Daynix	Spice in a 3d World	Hans de Goede, Red Hat	Trusted Compute Pools Feature in oVirt	Gang Wei, Intel Open Source Technology

Wednesday, October 23rd

Time	Title	Speaker
08:30am	Keynote Panel: OVA at KVM Forum: Connecting High Performance End Users with Leading KVM Developers	Adam Jollans, IBM; Will Auld, Intel; Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao, NTT Open Software Center; Patrick Fitzgerald, i-Laye

	Track 1		Track 2
Time	Title	Speaker	Title	Speaker
9:15am	Reducing Context Switch Overhead	Rik van Riel, Red Hat	oVirt Project Update	Itamar Heim, Red Hat
10:30am	QContext and Supporting Multiple Event Loop Threads in QEMU	Michael Roth, IBM	oVirt Hosted Engine: The Egg That Hosts its Parent Chicken	Doron Fediuck, Red Hat
11:15am	QAPI Interface Design: Best Practices	Eric Blake, Red Hat	oVirt for PowerPC	Leonardo Bianconi, Instituto de Pesquisas Eldorado

	Track 1	Track 2
Time	Title	Title	Speaker
1:00pm	Hackathon	The Future Integration Points for oVirt Storage and Storage Consumption	Sean Cohen & Ayal Baron, Red Hat
2:00pm	Hackathon	Using oVirt and Spice for VDI	Frantisek Kobzik
3:30pm	Hackathon	oVirt Networking	Livnat Peer, Red Hat
4:30pm	Hackathon	Community outreach - growing the oVirt community and ecosystem	Dave Neary, Red Hat

Videos

The Youtube channel has the links to all the videos. Live streaming information on the Google+ page.

Session Notes

• Track 1: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/KVM-Forum-2013-Edinburgh-Suite
• Track 2: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/KVM-Forum-2013-Melville-Suite
• Track 3: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/KVM-Forum-2013-Stirling-Suite