KVM Forum 2014

KVM Forum 2014

The KVM Forum 2014 was held from October 14-16, 2014 at the Congress Centre Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf, Germany. It was co-located with LinuxCon Europe 2014.

Videos

Videos are posted at this location: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRCSQmAOh7yzgheq-emy1xA

Schedule

Program schedule is at http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kvm-forum/program/schedule

Tuesday, October 14th

Time	Title	Speaker
09:00am	Keynote: KVM	Paolo Bonzini, Red Hat
09:15am	Security Hardening of KVM	Andrew Honig, Google
10:00am	Validating and Defending QEMU TCG Targets	Alex Bennee, Linaro
11:15am	ARM KVM Platform Device Assignment	Eric Auger, Linaro
12:00pm	Extending KVM Models Toward High-Performance NFV	Jun Nakajima, Intel

	Track 1		Track 2
Time	Title	Speaker	Title	Speaker
2:00pm	Optimizing IO Virtualization and VM Memory Management for Tablet Devices	Bokdeuk Jeong, Samsung	Hardware Accelerated Virtio Networking for NFV	Varun Sethi & Yashpal Dutta, Freescale Semiconductor
2:30pm	Automatic NUMA Balancing	Rik van Riel, Red Hat	vhost-scsi Technical Discussion	Nicholas A. Bellinger, Datera
3:30pm	KvmGT: A Full GPU Virtualization Solution for KVM	Jike Song, Intel	KVM on MIPS	James Hogan, Imagination Technologies
4:00pm	VFIO, OVMF, GPU, and You	Alex Williamson, Red Hat	KVM on IBM POWER8 Machines	Paul Mackerras, IBM
4:30pm	Graphics in QEMU - How the Guest Display Shows Up in Your Desktop Windows	Gerd Hoffmann, Red Hat	VFIO on POWER	Alexey Kardashevskiy, IBM

Wednesday, October 15th

Time	Title	Speaker
09:00am	Keynote: QEMU	Andreas Färber, SUSE
09:15am	New to QEMU: A Developers's Guide to Contributing	Jeff Cody, Red Hat
10:00am	Nested Virtualization - State of the Art and Future Directions	Jan Kiszka, Siemens; Bandan Das, Red Hat; Yang Zhang, Intel
11:15am	Towards Multi-Threaded Device Emulation in QEMU	Stefan Hajnoczi, Red Hat
12:00pm	Memory Externalization with userfaultfd	Andrea Arcangeli & Dr. David Alan Gilbert, Red Hat

	Track 1		Track 2
Time	Title	Speaker	Title	Speaker
2:00pm	Deterministic Replay and Reverse Debugging in QEMU	Pavel Dovgalyuk, ISP	Virtio-blk Multi-queue Conversion and QEMU Optimization	Ming Lei, Canonical
2:30pm	Migration: Trying to Make it More Robust	Juan Quintela, Red Hat	More Block Device Configuration	Kevin Wolf & Max Reitz, Red Hat
3:30pm	Job Safety: Blockers in the Block Layer	Jeff Cody, Red Hat	KVM on Grid, Shaken Not Stirred	Raphael Sack, Intel IT

Thursday, October 16th

Time	Title	Speaker
09:00am	Keynote: Libvirt	Jiři Denemark, Red Hat
09:15am	Connecting High Performance End Users with Leading KVM Developers	Dave Neary (moderator), Red Hat
10:00am	OpenStack Performance Optimization with NUMA, Huge Pages and CPU Pinning	Daniel Berrange, Red Hat
11:15am	Thanks for the Live Snapshots, Where's Live merge?	Adam Litke, Red Hat
12:00pm	Libvirt. Why should I Care?	Michal Privoznik, Red Hat
2:00pm	I/O Demand-driven VM Scheduler in KVM	Hyotaek Shim, Samsung
2:30pm	KVM and Valgrind	Christian Bornträger, IBM Germany
3:30pm	QOM Exegesis and Apocalypse	Paolo Bonzini, Red Hat
4:00pm	Testing QEMU Emulated Devices Using qtest	Marc Marí Barceló, UPC Barcelona Tech

BoFs

KVM Forum 2014 BOF

Community Team Photo

Blogs / News Reports

• https://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/cloud-computing/793738-kvm-matures-and-the-use-cases-multiply/
• http://log.amitshah.net/2014/11/kvm-forum-2014-2/
• https://lwn.net/Articles/616223/
• The security state of KVM: https://lwn.net/Articles/619376/