KVM Forum Courses

Handling Complex Guest Exits with eBPF

Explore eBPF programs for efficient handling of complex KVM guest exits, reducing latency and improving virtualization performance.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

QEMU Arm CPU Models and KVM for Guest Migration

Explore Arm CPU models in QEMU, focusing on KVM compatibility, migration challenges, and potential solutions for flexible vCPU configurations.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The COCONUT Secure VM Service Module for Confidential Virtual Machines

Explore the COCONUT Secure VM Service Module for confidential virtual machines, its design, implementation, and future plans for enhancing CVM security and device emulation.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Practical and Efficient Out-of-Process Storage Backends

Explore out-of-process storage backends for VMs, comparing options like qemu-storage-daemon. Analyze performance characteristics and future optimizations for efficient storage solutions.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Virtualizing Arm TrustZone on KVM

Extend KVM to virtualize Arm TrustZone, enabling VMs to run trusted execution environments. Explore implementation details, challenges, and future directions for secure virtualization.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Emulating Hyper-V's Virtual Secure Mode with QEMU and KVM

Explore innovative VSM emulation in KVM using Companion VMs. Learn about progress, design challenges, and potential applications in confidential computing and device emulation security.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Securing Interrupt Delivery for SEV-SNP Guests

Explore SEV-SNP's Alternate Injection feature for securing interrupt delivery in virtual machines, using SVSM and APIC emulation to protect against malicious hypervisor attacks.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

SNP Live Migration with Guest-memfd and Mirror VM - KVM Forum

Explore SEV-SNP live migration using guest-memfd and mirror VM. Learn about KVM API usage, NPT page tables, dirty page tracking, and post-copy considerations for enhanced virtualization security.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

IOThread Virtqueue Mapping - Improving virtio-blk SMP Scalability in QEMU

Explore virtio-blk IOThread Virtqueue Mapping in QEMU 9.0, enhancing SMP scalability for multi-vCPU guests. Learn configuration, performance impacts, and future developments in virtualization.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

QEMU: Understanding QMP, QAPI, and API Documentation with Sphinx

Explore QEMU's QMP and QAPI, unraveling their differences and recent developments. Learn about the QMP documentation overhaul project and its impact on developers and users.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The Road to Optimal CPU Virtualization on Hybrid Platforms

Explore optimal CPU virtualization on hybrid platforms. Learn about QEMU API design, hybrid CPU/cache topology for guests, and VM performance optimization methods for hybrid vCPUs.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The virtio-fs Kaleidoscope - Current State, Future Prospects, and Performance Insights

Explore virtio-fs advancements: live migration, experimental interfaces, filesystem transformations, and performance optimizations for enhanced virtualization and storage capabilities.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Is OVMF too Slow for Serverless Confidential Computing?

Explore OVMF performance in serverless confidential computing, analyzing benchmarks, overheads, and potential solutions for SEV and SNP guests.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Unwrapping Virtio-Video: Draft Specification and Challenges

Explore the draft virtio-video device specification, its challenges, and provide feedback for standardization in virtualized multimedia pipelines for automotive applications.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

VirtIO GPU: Current Status and Implementation in Rust

Explore the current status and ongoing efforts to implement VirtIO GPU for infotainment systems in automotive industry, including the decision to develop it in Rust as a vhost-user device under Rust-VMM.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video