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.

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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 (video, slides)
Pushing the limits: 1000 guests per host and beyond by Jens Freimann (video, slides)

Migratable 40GBit/s Ethernet by Alexander Graf (video, improved 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 (video, slides)
Guest operating system debugging by David Hildenbrand (video, slides)
virtio 1 - why do it? and are we there yet? by Michael S. Tsirkin (video, slides)

KVM Forum 2015 - QEMU Keynote by Alexander Graf (video, slides)
Towards multi-threaded TCG by Alex Bennée and Frederic Konrad (video, slides)
KVM Message Passing Performance by David Matlack (video, 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 (video, slides)
QEMU for Xilinx ZynqMP by Edgar E. Iglesias (video, slides)
QEMU interface introspection: from hacks to solutions by Markus Armbruster (video, slides)

CPU hot-plug - status and challenges by Andreas Färber (video, 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 (video, slides)
New qemu technology used in virt-v2v by Richard Jones (video, slides)
Vhost: Sharing is better by Eyal Moscovici and Bandan Das (video, slides)
KVM as The NFV Hypervisor by Jun Nakajima (video, 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 (video, slides)
Migrating NFV Applications to KVM guest by Mario Smarduch (video, slides)
Rethinking machine types by David Gibson (video, slides)

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

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