KVM Forum 2024 was held in Brno, Czech Republic on September 22–23, 2024.

List of presentations

Presentations

• KVM Keynote - Oliver Upton (slides, video)
• Oh Plugins, where are we now? - Alex Bennée (slides, video)
• The Confidential Computing Story part I: Rivers, dams and kernel development - Paolo Bonzini (slides, video)
• The Confidential Computing Story part II: Early development across the stack: living in stilt house - Fabiano Fidêncio, Mikko Ylinen (slides, video)
• TCG Plugin in Practice: A Case of Microarchitecture Research - Akihiko Odaki (slides 1, 2, video)
• Getting QEMU ready for the Automotive Industry - Sergio Lopez Pascual (slides, video)
• Beneath the Surface: Analyzing Nested CVM Performance on KVM/QEMU and Linux Root Partition for Microsoft Hyper-V/Cloud-Hypervisor - Muminul Islam, Jinank Jain (slides, video)
• Automated hypervisor testing and benchmarking on hardware - Markus Napierkowski, Sebastian Eydam (slides, video)
• SVSM and VM Privilege Level instantiation and execution - Tom Lendacky (slides, video)
• Virtual device for testing the Linux PCIe endpoint framework - Shunsuke Mie (slides, video)
• Guest-side changes for confidential guests in Android - Will Deacon (slides, video)
• VM crash investigation: Unmasking the culprits - Alice Frosi (slides, video)
• Empowering confidential VMs in the cloud to use their own firmware upon instantiation. - Anirban (Ani) Sinha, Alexander Graf, Vitaly Kuznetsov (slides, video)
• Live Updates @ Akamai - Michael Galaxy (slides, video)
• Virtio and the chamber of secrets - Michael S. Tsirkin (slides, video)
• QEMU live migration device state transfer parallelization via multifd channels - Maciej S. Szmigiero (slides, video)
• COCONUT-SVSM on KVM: Progress, Plans, and Challenges - Jörg Rödel, Roy Hopkins (slides, video)
• Coconut-SVSM: Early attestation to unlock persistent state - Stefano Garzarella, Oliver Steffen (slides, video)
• UserfaultFD-based Memory Overcommitment - Tejus GK, Manish Mishra, Rohit Kumar (slides, video)
• QEMU Keynote - Paolo Bonzini (slides, video)
• Unleashing VFIO's Potential: Code Refactoring and New Frontiers in Device Virtualization - Alex Williamson (slides, video)
• Solving the Sphinx's Riddle - John Snow (slides, video)
• Unleashing SR-IOV on Virtual Machines - Yui Washizu, Akihiko Odaki (slides 1, 2, video)
• The Road to Optimal CPU Virtualization on Hybrid Platform - Zhao Liu, Zhenyu Wang (slides, video)
• Practical and efficient out-of-process storage backends - Kevin Wolf (slides, video)
• vfio-platform: live and let die? - Eric Auger (slides, video)
• IOThread Virtqueue Mapping: Improving virtio-blk SMP scalability in QEMU - Stefan Hajnoczi (slides, video)
• vfio-cxl: CXL Type 2 Device Passthrough With VFIO - Zhi Wang (slides, video)
• The Challenges of building AI Infra on virtualization - Xin He, Hao Hong (slides, video)
• The virtio-fs Kaleidoscope - German Maglione, Hanna Czenczek (slides, video)
• virtio-gpu - Where are we now? - Dorinda Bassey, Matej Hrica (slides, video)
• SNP Live Migration with guest-memfd and mirror VM - Tom Lendacky, Pankaj Gupta (slides, video)
• The many faces of virtio-gpu - Sergio Lopez Pascual (slides, video)
• Emulating Hyper-V's Virtual Secure Mode (VSM) with QEMU and KVM - Nicolas Saenz Julienne (slides, video)
• Securing Interrupt Delivery for SEV-SNP Guests - Melody (Huibo) Wang (slides, video)
• Unwrapping virtio-video - Alexander Gordeev (slides, video)
• The KVM Backend for VirtualBox - Julian Stecklina, Martin Messer (slides, video)
• Virtualizing Arm TrustZone on KVM - Chun Yen Lin, Shih-Wei Li (slides, video)
• Is OVMF too Slow for Serverless Confidential Computing? - Tobin Feldman-Fitzthum (slides, video)
• Qemu support for Windows Hypervisor Platform on Arm - Mohamed Mediouni (slides, video)

Video

• Video recordings!
• Day 1 live stream, HALL A+B
• Day 1 live stream, HALL C+D
• Day 2 live stream, HALL A+B
• Day 2 live stream, HALL C+D

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