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
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			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

	Track 1		Track 2
Time	Title	Speaker	Title	Speaker
13:45 - 14:15	KVM Graphics Direct Assignment	Allen Kay	Low-Latency, High-Bandwidth Use Cases for Nahanni/ivshmem	Paul Lu
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			Yabusame: Postcopy Live Migration for Qemu/KVM	Takahiro Hirofuchi
17:30 - 17:45	Closing
18:00 - 19:00	BoFs

BoFs

Date TBD

Title	Leader
Tracing from the virtual machine	Dhaval Giani
Guest and Host Communication	Amit Shah
3D emulation and remoting	Alon Levy
Approaches to Cloud Storage	Igor Serebryany
Moving away from C	Avi Kivity
Device Assignment	Alexander Graf