KVM Forum 2013
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KVM Forum 2013
The KVM Forum 2013 will be held from October 21-22, 2013 at the Sheraton Grand Hotel in Edinburgh. It is co-located with LinuxCon Europe 2013.
The talks will be streamed live via Google Hangouts / Youtube and the recordings will be available immediately after the talks finish.
Schedule
Monday, October 21st
| Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00am | Keynote | Gleb Natapov, Red Hat |
| 09:15am | Modern QEMU Device Emulation | Andreas Färber, Suse |
| 10:30am | How Closely Do We Model Real Hardware in QEMU? | Anthony Liguori, Amazon |
| 11:15am | Virgil3D - Virtio Based 3D Capable GPU | Dave Airlie, Red Hat |
| Track 1 | Track 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Title | Speaker | Title | Speaker |
| 1:00pm | Introduction to z/Architecture and KVM on System z | Jens Freimann, IBM | Static system partitioning and KVM | Jan Kiszka, Siemens Corporate Technology |
| 1:45pm | Crossing the Endianness Bridge (Or a Foolish Attempt at Mixed-Endian Virtualization) | Marc Zyngier, Arm64 | VGA Assignment Using VFIO | Alex Williamson, Red Hat |
| 2:30pm | Find Your Way Through the (x86) Firmware Maze | Gerd Hoffmann, Red Hat | Platform Device Passthrough Using VFIO | Stuart Yoder, Freescale Semiconductor |
| 3:30pm | Nested Virtualization: Shadow Turtles | Orit Wasserman, Red Hat | Developments in KVM on Power | Paul Mackerras, IBM |
| 4:00pm | Nested EPT to Make Nested VMX Faster | Gleb Natapov, Red Hat | Running Windows 8 on top of Android with KVM | Zhi Wang, Intel |
| 4:30pm | Lessons learned from OSv | Avi Kivity & Glauber Costa, Cloudius | QEMU Summit | QEMU Community Leaders |
Tuesday, October 22nd
| Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00am | Keynote | Anthony Liguori, Amazon |
| 9:15am | Effective Multi-Threading in QEMU | Paolo Bonzini, Red Hat |
| 10:30am | Block Layer Status Report | Stefan Hajnoczi & Kevin Wolf, Red Hat |
| 11:15am | An Introduction to OpenStack and its use of KVM Virtualization | Daniel Berrange, Red Hat |
| Track 1 | Track 2 | Track 3 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Title | Speaker | Title | Speaker | ||
| 1:00pm | RDMA Live Migration and RDMA Fault Tolerance | Michael Hines, IBM | Implementing New Block Drivers: A QEMU Developer Primer | Jeff Cody, Red Hat | New Developments and Advanced Features in the Libvirt Management API | Daniel Berrange, Red Hat |
| 1:45pm | COLO: COarse-grained LOck-stepping Virtual Machines | Will Auld, Intel & Xiaowei Yang, Huawei | Toward QCOW2 Deduplication | Benoît Canet, Nodalink | Empowering Data Center Virtualization Using KVM | Livnat Peer, Red Hat |
| 2:30pm | One Year Later: And There are Still Things to Improve in Migration! | Juan Quintela, Red Hat Block | Device Configuration Done Right | Markus Armbruster & Kevin Wolf, Red Hat | Kimchi: Simplified KVM Management | Adam Litke, IBM |
| 3:30pm | Experiments in Enabling Automated Migration Testing | Amit Shah, Red Hat High | Performance Network I/O for Virtual Machines | Giuseppe Lettieri, Ingegneria dell'Informazione: Elettronica, Informatica, Telecomunicazioni | Providing Quality of Service for VMs in oVirt | Martin Sivak, Red Hat |
| 4:00pm | Debugging Live Migration | Alexander Graf, SUSE | Virtio and KVM Networking: Status Update and Plans | Michael S. Tsirkin, Red Hat | You Want How Much Space? Virtualisation at Keele, and How Not To Do It | Martin Goldstone, Keele University |
| 4:30pm | Automatic Memory Ballooning | Luiz Capitulino, Red Hat | Efficient and Scalable Virtio | Abel Gordon, IBM Research | Linux Storage Stack for the Cloud | Yeela Kaplan, Red Hat |
| 5:00pm | QEMU Development and Testing Automation Using MS HCK | Anton Nayshtut, Daynix | Spice in a 3d World | Hans de Goede, Red Hat | Trusted Compute Pools Feature in oVirt | Gang Wei, Intel Open Source Technology |
Wednesday, October 23rd
| Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 08:30am | Keynote Panel: OVA at KVM Forum: Connecting High Performance End Users with Leading KVM Developers | Adam Jollans, IBM; Will Auld, Intel; Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao, NTT Open Software Center; Patrick Fitzgerald, i-Laye |
| Track 1 | Track 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Title | Speaker | Title | Speaker |
| 9:15am | Reducing Context Switch Overhead | Rik van Riel, Red Hat | oVirt Project Update | Itamar Heim, Red Hat |
| 10:30am | QContext and Supporting Multiple Event Loop Threads in QEMU | Michael Roth, IBM | oVirt Hosted Engine: The Egg That Hosts its Parent Chicken | Doron Fediuck, Red Hat |
| 11:15am | QAPI Interface Design: Best Practices | Eric Blake, Red Hat | oVirt for PowerPC | Leonardo Bianconi, Instituto de Pesquisas Eldorado |
| Track 1 | Track 2 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Title | Title | Speaker |
| 1:00pm | Hackathon | The Future Integration Points for oVirt Storage and Storage Consumption | Sean Cohen & Ayal Baron, Red Hat |
| 2:00pm | Hackathon | Using oVirt and Spice for VDI | Frantisek Kobzik |
| 3:30pm | Hackathon | oVirt Networking | Livnat Peer, Red Hat |
| 4:30pm | Hackathon | Community outreach - growing the oVirt community and ecosystem | Dave Neary, Red Hat |
Videos
The Youtube channel has the links to all the videos. Live streaming information on the Google+ page.
Session Notes
- Track 1: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/KVM-Forum-2013-Edinburgh-Suite
- Track 2: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/KVM-Forum-2013-Melville-Suite
- Track 3: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/KVM-Forum-2013-Stirling-Suite