KVM Forum 2011
KVM Forum 2011
Vancouver Canada, August 15-16, 2011
The KVM Forum 2011 will be held at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver in Vancouver, Canada on August 15-16, 2011. We will be co-located with LinuxCon North America 2011
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon
Scope
KVM is an industry leading open source hypervisor that provides an ideal platform for datacenter virtualization, virtual desktop infrastructure, and cloud computing. Once again, it's time to bring together the community of developers and users that define the KVM ecosystem for our annual technical conference. We will discuss the current state of affairs and plan for the future of KVM, its surrounding infrastructure, and management tools. So mark your calendar and join us in advancing KVM.
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kvm-forum/
CFP
KVM Forum 2011 CFP (now closed, see Schedule)
Registration
Please visit this page to register:
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kvm-forum/register
Hotel and Travel
The KVM Forum 2011 will be held in Vancouver BC at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver. See the Linux Foundation's KVM Forum page for more details on hotels and travel.
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kvm-forum/travel
Schedule
Monday, August 15th
| Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Welcome | |
| 09:15 - 09:30 | Keynote | Avi Kivity |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | KVM on the IBM POWER7 Processor | Paul Mackerras |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | VFIO: PCI device assignment breaks free of KVM | Alex Williamson |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Break | |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | The reinvention of qcow2 | Kevin Wolf |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Virtio SCSI: An alternative virtualized storage stack for KVM | Stefan Hajnoczi & Paolo Bonzini |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | Native Linux KVM tool | Asias He |
| 12:15 - 13:30 | Lunch | |
| Track 1 | Track 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Title | Speaker | Title | Speaker |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | What's coming from the MM for KVM | Andrea Arcangeli | KVM on Embedded Power Architecture Platforms | Stuart Yoder |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Guest memory resizing - free page hinting & more | Rik van Riel | Using KVM as a Real-Time Hypervisor | Jan Kiszka |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Optimizing Your KVM Instances | Mark Wagner | Experiences porting KVM to SmartOS | Bryan Cantrill |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Break | |||
| 15:20 - 15:50 | virtio networking status update and case study | Michael S. Tsirkin | Introduction to the libvirt APIs for KVM management and their future development | Daniel Berrange |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | IO Throttling in QEMU | Ryan Harper | VDSM is now Free | Dan Kenigsberg |
| 16:20 - 16:50 | Lightning Talks
|
The best of both worlds: Network virtualization and KVM | Yoshi Tamura | |
| 16:50 - 17:10 | Break | |||
| 17:10 - 19:00 | BoFs | |||
Tuesday, August 16th
| Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 - 9:15 | Keynote | Anthony Liguori |
| 9:15 - 9:45 | Performance monitoring in KVM guests | Avi Kivity |
| 9:45 - 10:15 | AHCI - doing storage right | Alexander Graf |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Code Generation for Fun and Profit | Anthony Liguori |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | QEMU's device model qdev: Where do we go from here? | Markus Armbruster |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | SPICE Roadmap | Alon Levy |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Fixing the USB disaster | Gerd Hoffmann |
| 12:30 - 13:45 | Lunch | |
BoFs
Date TBD
| Title | Leader |
|---|---|
| Approaches to Cloud Storage | Igor Serebryany |
Monday, August 15th
| Title | Leader |
|---|---|
| VFIO | Alex Williamson |
| Guest and Host Communication | Amit Shah |
| Moving away from C | Avi Kivity |
Tuesday, August 16th
| Title | Leader |
|---|---|
| USB mini-summit | Sarah Sharp |
| 3D emulation and remoting | Alon Levy |
| virtio_scsi | Stefan Hajnoczi & Paolo Bonzini |
| Tracing from the virtual machine | Dhaval Giani |
