KVM Forum 2016

The 9th edition of the KVM Forum, KVM Forum 2016, was held from 24 to 26 August at the Westin Harbor Castle, Toronto, Canada. It was co-located with LinuxCon NA 2016.

Live Updates

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Videos and Slides

Wednesday - August 24, 2016

Wednesday Morning

• Experience in Developing a Driver for a Complex New Hardware Device on Qemu/KVM - Knut Omang (video, slides)
• Real Time KVM - Rik van Riel (slides)
• Performant Security Hardening of KVM - Steve Rutherford (video, slides)

Wednesday Afternoon

• Securely Integrating QEMU with Open Source Virtualization Technology - Daniel Berrage (video, slides)
• Userland Page Faults and Byond: Why, How and What's Next - Andrea Arcangeli
• An Introduction to PCI Device Assignment with VFIO - Alex Williamson (video, slides)
• Kernel Protection Using Hardware-Based Virtualization - Jun Nakajima & Sainath Grandhi (video, slides)
• A Practical Look at QEMU's Block Layer Primitives - Kashyap Chamarthy (slides)

Thursday - August 25, 2016

Thursday Morning

• Keynote: KVM Status Report - Paolo Bonzini (video, slides)
• Virtualization Developer Panel - Moderated by Stefan Hajnoczi ([ video])
• vGPU on KVM - A VFIO Based Framework - Neo Jia & Kirti Wankhede (slides)
• VMBus (Hyper-V) devices in QEMU/KVM - Roman Kagan (slides)
• QEMU Support for the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture - Sagar Karandikar (slides)
• Dirty Memory Tracking for Performant Checkpointing Solutions - Lei Cao (slides)
• QEMU Graphics Update 2016 - Gerd Hoffmann

Thursday Afternoon

• Quo Vadis Virtio? - Michael Tsirkin (slides)
• Jobs and Unemployment in the New QEMU Economy - John Snow (slides)
• Design of Vhost-pci - Wei Wang (slides)
• I/O Prefetch Cache as QEMU Block Filter Driver - Pavel Butsykin (slides)
• AMD's Virtualization Memory Encryption Technology - Thomas Lendacky (slides)
• Backups with QEMU - Max Reitz (slides)
• TCG Enhancements for PowerPC - Nikunj Dadhania (slides)
• Microsoft Failover Clustering on KVM - Vadim Rozenfeld (slides)
• Keynote: Libvirt Status Report - Jiri Denemark (video, slides)
• Lightening Talks
  • High Performance Networking in Virtual Machines - Xiyue Wang ([ slides])

Friday - August 26, 2016

Friday Morning

• Keynote: QEMU Status Report - Alexander Graf (video, slides)
• QEMU Community Growth Through Open Source Internships - Stefan Hajnoczi (slides)
• Painless Switch from Proprietary Hypervisor to QEMU/KVM - Den Lunev (slides)
• QEMU Coroutines, Exposed - Jeff Cody
• KVM on System z: The Good, the Bad and the Weird - Cornelia Huck (slides)
• Atomic.h weapons: The C11 Memory Model and QEMU - Paolo Bonzini (slides)
• Light Weight Virtualization with QEMU/KVM - Chao Peng (slides)

Friday Afternoon

• Machine-type Introspection and Configuration: Where Are We Going? - Eduardo Habkost (slides)
• Real Time & Fast Live Migration Update for NFV - Liang Li (slides)
• CPU Hotplug Support in QEMU - Bharata Rao & David Gibson (slides)
• Vhost with Guest vIOMMU - Peter Xu and Wei Xu (slides)
• Nesting KVM on s390x - David Hildenbrand (slides)
• Status Update on KVM-COLO RT - Hailang Zhang (slides)
• As Time Goes By, Analysing Where We Spend Our Cycles During Exits - Christian Bornträger (slides)
• Qemu as a USB-MTP Responder - Bandan Das (slides)
• NVDIMM Virtualization - Xiao Guangrong (slides)
• Libvirt Admin API - A Different Kind of Management for libvirt - Erik Skultety (slides)

Schedule

https://kvmforum2016.sched.org/

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