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 Hoffmann, 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: PV Disk I/O * OVMF * Netware as KVM Guest * Efficient Guest Agnostic Virtualization with Embedded Power Architecture KVM	Matthias Brugger, Laszlo Ersek, Bruce Rogers, Varun Sethi

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

Jeff Cody managed to get a photograph of (a large part of) the KVM / QEMU community development team: