KVM Forum 2011 WIP
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 2010 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 |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | Native Linux KVM tools | 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 | Low-Latency, High-Bandwidth Use Cases for Nahanni/ivshmem | Cam Macdonell | 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 | Code Generation for Fun and Profit | Anthony Liguori |
| 9:45 - 10:15 | Performance monitoring in KVM guests | Avi Kivity |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | AHCI - doing storage right | Alexander Graf |
| 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 | Fixing the USB disaster | Gerd Hoffmann |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | SPICE Roadmap | Alon Levy |
| 12:30 - 13:45 | Lunch | |
| Track 1 | Track 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Title | Speaker | Title | Speaker |
| 13:45 - 14:15 | KVM Graphics Direct Assignment | Allen Kay | ||
| 14:15 - 14:45 | Making KVM autotest useful for KVM developers | Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues | QEMU: live block copy | Marcelo Tosatti |
| 14:45 - 15:15 | AMD IOMMU Version 2 Support in KVM | Joerg Roedel | Livebackup - A Complete Solution for making Full and Incremental Disk Backups of Running VMs | Jagane Sundar |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Break | |||
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Geographically distributed HPC Clouds using KVM | Conrad Wood | Migration: one year later | Juan Quintela |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Implementing a Hardware Appliance Product: Applied usage of qemu/KVM and libvirt | Ricardo Marin Matinata | Rapid VM Synchronization with I/O Emulation Logging-Replay | Kei Ohmura |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Improving the Out-of-box Performance When Using KVM | Andrew Theurer | Enhancing Live Migration Process for CPU and/or memory intensive VMs running Enterprise applications | Benoit Hudzia |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Optimizing KVM Performance for Persistent Data Storage in Clouds | Khoa Huynh | Yabusame: Postcopy Live Migration for Qemu/KVM | Takahiro Hirofuchi |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | Closing | |||
| 17:30 - 19:00 | BoFs | |||