KVM Forum 2017

The 10th edition of the KVM Forum was held from 25 - 27 October at the Hilton Prague in Prague, Czech Republic.

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Lessons in Running libvirtd at Scale - Prerna Saxena, Nutanix (video slides)
OMG, NPIV! Virtualizing Fibre Channel with Linux and KVM - Paolo Bonzini, Red Hat, Inc. & Hannes Reinecke, SUSE (video slides)

QEMU in UEFI - Alexander Graf, SUSE (video slides)
The Future of virtio: Riddles, Myths and Surprises - Michael S. Tsirkin/Jens Freimann, Red Hat, Inc. (video [slides])
Helping Users Maximize VM Performance - Martin Polednik, Red Hat, Inc. (video slides)
KVM Performance Tuning on Alibaba Cloud - Yang Zhang, Alibaba Cloud (video slides)

Keynote: KVM Status Report - Christian Bornträger, IBM (video [slides])
To EL2, and Beyond! - Christoffer Dall, Linaro (video slides)
Running Virtual Machines on Kubernetes with libvirt & KVM - Fabian Deutsch & Roman Mohr, Red Hat, Inc. (video slides)
Managing the New Block Layer - Kevin Wolf & Max Reitz, Red Hat, Inc.(video slides)
Bringing Commercial Grade Virtual Machine Introspection to KVM - Mihai Donțu, Bitdefender (video slides)
Qemu Backup - Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy & Maxim Nestratov, Virtuozzo (videos slides)
Nested Virtualization on ARM - Christoffer Dall, Linaro (videos slides)

Live Migration with Mediated Device - Yulei Zhang, Intel (videos slides)
Zero-Copy Receive for vhost - Mike Rapoport, IBM (videos slides)
Generic Buffer Sharing Mechanism for Mediated Devices - Tina Zhang, Intel (videos slides)
Configuring and Benchmarking Open vSwitch, DPDK and vhost-user - Pei Zhang, Red Hat, Inc. (videos slides)
Adding Device Direct Assignment Support for a New Bus Infrastructure on ARM64: Challenges and Performance Tuning - Mihai Caraman, NXP (videos [slides])
virtio: vhost Data Path Acceleration towards NFV Cloud - Cunming Liang, Intel (videos slides)
Userspace NVMe driver in QEMU - Fam Zheng, Red Hat, Inc. (videos slides)
Improve VNF Safety with Vhost-User/DPDK IOMMU Support - Maxime Coquelin, Red Hat, Inc. (videos [slides])
Where Does the Time Go? Profiling Nested KVM on x86/Intel - Jim Mattson, Google (videos slides)
virtio-crypto: A New Framework of Cryptography Virtio Device - Lei Gong, Huawei & Xin Zeng, Intel (videos [slides])
Nested Virtualization: Hyper-V on KVM - Ladi Prosek, Red Hat, Inc. (videos slides)
Testing Techniques Applied to Virt Development - Cleber Rosa, Red Hat, Inc. (videos slides)

Keynote: QEMU Status Report - Paolo Bonzini, Red Hat, Inc. (video [slides])
Failing Migrations: How & Why - Dr. David Alan Gilbert, Red Hat, Inc. (video [slides])
Multi-Process QEMU - Marc-Andre Lureau, Red Hat, Inc. & Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, Oracle video slides)
vIOMMU/ARM: Full Emulation and virtio-iommu Approaches - Eric Auger, Red Hat, Inc. (video slides)
Introducing vhost-user-scsi and It's Applications - Felipe Franciosi, Nutanix & James Harris, Intel (video slides)
Measuring the Effects of Turbo on VMs - Benjamin Serebrin, Google (video slides)
RDMA is Coming to QEMU - Yuval Shaia, Oracle & Marcel Apfelbaum, Red Hat, Inc. (video [slides])

Fast Write-Protect and Fast Dirtylog-Bitmap Sync Up - Guangrong Xiao, Tencent Cloud (video slides)
Towards a More Expressive and Introspectable QEMU Command Line - Markus Armbruster, Red Hat, Inc. (video slides)
Live Migration at Ali-Cloud: Issues Settled & Challenges Remain - Chao Zhang, Alibaba Cloud (video slides)
libtcg: Exposing QEMU's TCG Frontend to External Tools - Alessandro Di Federico, Politecnico di Milano (video [slides])
Keynote: Libvirt Status Report - Peter Krempa (video slides)
Applying Polling Techniques to QEMU: Reducing virtio-blk I/O Latency - Stefan Hajnoczi, Red Hat, Inc. (video slides)
Instrumenting, Introspection, and Debugging with QEMU - Pavel Dovgalyuk, ISPRAS (video slides)
Improving the Performance of the qcow2 Format - Alberto Garcia, Igalia (video slides)
Linux-User Support in QEMU - Riku Voipio, Linaro (video [slides])
How to Handle Globally Distributed qcow2 Chains - Eyal Moscovici & Amit Abir, Oracle Ravello Systems (video slides)
Vectoring in on QEMU's TCG Engine - Alex Bennée, Linaro (video slides)