What's New in Virtio 1.2 and Future Developments

Explore the latest developments in virtio 1.2 and future proposals for virtio 1.3 in this informative conference talk. Delve into the "covid release" of the virtio specification, covering three years of development work, including new devices and features for existing ones. Learn about use-cases where virtio 1.2 is designed to be implemented and discover potential new use-cases requiring specification work for future versions. Gain insights into topics such as persistent memory, single buffer, event queue, bypass, pass-through stream virtues, new devices, zone block devices, header split, secure encryption, migration, VLANs, scalable libraryization, hardware changes, and forward compatibility. Understand the GitHub issue process, development mailing list, and driver development aspects of the virtio ecosystem.