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 (slides)
Real Time KVM - Rik van Riel (slides)
Performant Security Hardening of KVM - Steve Rutherford (slides)

Wednesday Afternoon

Securely Integrating QEMU with Open Source Virtualization Technology - Daniel Berrage (slides)
Userland Page Faults and Byond: Why, How and What's Next - Andrea Arcangeli
An Introduction to PCI Device Assignment with VFIO - Alex Williamson (slides)
Kernel Protection Using Hardware-Based Virtualization - Jun Nakajima & Sainath Grandhi (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 (slides)
Virtualization Developer Panel - Moderated by Stefan Hajnoczi
vGPU on KVM - A VFIO Based Framework - Neo Jia & Kirti Wankhede (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 (slides)
Lightening Talks
- High Performance Networking in Virtual Machines - Xiyue Wang ([ slides])

Friday - August 26, 2016

Friday Morning

Keynote: QEMU Status Report - Alexander Graf (slides)
QEMU Community Growth Through Open Source Internships - Stefan Hajnoczi (slides)
Painless Switch from Proprietary Hypervisor to QEMU/KVM - Den Lunev (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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