KVM Forum 2012
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KVM Forum 2012
The KVM Forum 2012 was held from November 7-9, 2012 at the Hotel Fira Palace in Barcelona. It was co-located with LinuxCon Europe 2012
Schedule
Wednesday, November 7th
| Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00am | Keynote | Avi Kivity, Red Hat |
| 09:15am | For Performance and Latency, Not for Fun | Jan Kiszka, Siemens |
| 10:30am | KVM Scalability: Preparing for big SMP VMs | Andrew Theurer, IBM |
| 11:15am | Integrated Testing in QEMU - An Overview of qtest and qemu-test | Anthony Liguori, IBM |
| Track 1 | Track 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Title | Speaker | Title | Speaker |
| 1:00pm | KVM and Microsoft Hyper-V Enlightenments | Vadim Rozenfeld | QOM Vadis? Taking Objects to CPU and Beyond | Andreas Färber, SUSE |
| 1:45pm | Linux bridging: Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks | Stephen Hemminger | QIDL: An Embedded Language to Serialize Guest Data Structures for Live Migration | MIchael Roth, IBM |
| 2:30pm | KVM in the Enterprise: An Early Adopter's Take | Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao, NTT | Live Migration: Even faster, Now With a Dedicated Thread! | Orit Wasserman, Red Hat |
| 3:30pm | Qemu USB Status Report 2012 | Gerd Hoffman, Red Hat | Yabusame Update on Postcopy Live Migration for QEMU/KVM | Isaku Yamahata, VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. |
| 4:00pm | How to Use KVM's Reverse Mappings to Improve Scalability | Takuya Yoshikawa, NTT | Spice Status Update | Hans de Goede, Red Hat |
| 4:30pm | A New Chipset for Qemu - Intel's Q35 | Jason Baron, Red Hat | New Features in libguestfs and the Virt Tools | Richard Jones, Red Hat |
| 5:00pm | Building Application Sandboxes on Top of KVM or LXC Using libvirt | Daniel Berrange, Red Hat KVM | Autotest - It's not Just a QA Tool Anymore | Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues, Red Hat |
Thursday, November 8th
| Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00am | Keynote | Anthony Liguori, IBM |
| 09:15am | Virtio & Networking Status and Challenges | Michael S. Tsirkin, Red Hat |
| 10:30am | KVM Memory Management Update & Plans | Rik van Riel, Red Hat |
| 11:15am | Revamping the QEMU Memory API | Avi Kivity, Red Hat |
| Track 1 | Track 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Title | Speaker | Title | Speaker |
| 1:00pm | A Block Layer Overview | Kevin Wolf, Red Hat | Partial Device Port Acceleration | Alexander Graf, SUSE |
| 1:45pm | The Road to Effective Thin Provisioning in QEMU | Paolo Bonzini, Red Hat | VFIO: A User's Perspective | Alex Williamson, Red Hat |
| 2:30pm | GlusterFS for KVM Users and Developers | Stefan Hajnoczi, Red Hat | Megasas on Steroids: Qemu Device-Passthrough With VFIO | Hannes Reinecke, SUSE |
| 3:30pm | Enabling Optimized Interrupt/APIC Virtualization in KVM | Jun Nakajima, Intel | QEMU Live Block Operations: Snapshots, Merging, and Mirroring | Jeff Cody, Red Hat |
| 4:00pm | Efficient Sharing of Physical Devices Between KVM Guests and Host | Bharat Bhushan, Freescale | Virtio-blk Performance Improvement | Asias He, Red Hat |
| 4:30pm | Multiqueue Networking for KVM | Jason Wang, Red Hat | WHQL Pprocess for Windows Drivers and What the Community Can Learn From It | Yan Vugenfirer, Daynix |
| 5:00pm | Lightning Talks | |||
Friday, November 9th
| Track 1 | Track 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Title | Speaker | Title | Speaker |
| 9:15am | ARM Virtualization for the Masses | Christoffer Dall, Virtual Open Systems | Memory Aggregation / Cloud with KVM | Benoit Hudzia, SAP |
| 10:30am | KVM on IBM System z: Channel I/O And How To Virtualize It | Cornelia Huck, IBM | OpenStack: KVM for the Masses | Mark McLoughlin, Red Hat |
| 11:15am | Boxes: A Box for Everyone! | Zeeshan Ali, Red Hat | KVM on IBM POWER: Update & IO Architecture | Benjamin Herrenschmidt, IBM & Stuart Yoder, Freescale |
Community Team Photo
Jeff Cody managed to get a photograph of (a large part of) the KVM / QEMU community development team. View the photo and name key