Jekyll2017-05-16T11:11:44-04:00/QEMU is a FAST! processor emulator 2017-05-16T10:00:00-04:002017-05-16T10:00:00-04:00/2017/05/16/devconf-presentations<p>There were a couple of QEMU / virtualization related talks at the <a href="https://devconf.cz/2017/">DevConf 2017</a> conference that took place at the end of January already, but so far we missed to gather the links to the recordings of these talks. So here is now the list:</p> <ul> <li> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnMso6RmiOU&amp;t=258">How to write a legacy storage device emulator</a> by John Snow</p> </li> <li> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O33s1paYuYg&amp;t=75">GPU Passthrough using GNOME Boxes</a> by Felipe Borges</p> </li> <li> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn7Bdq9_cUA&amp;t=118">Self-virtualizing Linux on x86</a> by Radim Krčmář</p> </li> <li> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5ox_M-k63w">New ways to remote desktops with GStreamer integration</a> by Victor Toso de Carvalho and Pavel Grunt</p> </li> <li> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbm30mPp0hE&amp;t=210">Can VMs networking benefit from DPDK</a> by Maxime Coquelin and Victor Kaplansky</p> </li> <li> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3TBT68xCm8&amp;t=92">Windows VMs on KVM: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly</a> by Ladi Prosek</p> </li> <li> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w4roI9T7VE&amp;t=85">Pet VMs in Kubernetes? WTH</a> by Fabian Deutsch</p> </li> <li> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChtZaG_60AQ&amp;t=48">Virtualization development improved with Lago</a> by Rafael Martins</p> </li> <li> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1a_f_2IMG8">An ARMful of guests: virtualization on 64-bit ARM</a> by Andrea Bolognani</p> </li> </ul>Thomas Huth

There were a couple of QEMU / virtualization related talks at the DevConf 2017 conference that took place at the end of January already, but so far we missed to gather the links to the recordings of these talks. So here is now the list:

2017-03-19T05:30:00-04:002017-03-19T05:30:00-04:00/2017/03/19/qemu-in-the-blogs-february-2017<p>Here is a short list of articles and blog posts about QEMU and KVM, that were posted last month.</p> <ul> <li> <p><a href="https://blogs.igalia.com/berto/2017/02/08/qemu-and-the-qcow2-metadata-checks/">QEMU and the qcow2 metadata checks</a> by Alberto Garcia</p> </li> <li> <p><a href="https://ladipro.wordpress.com/2017/02/24/running-hyperv-in-kvm-guest/">Running Hyper-V in a QEMU/KVM Guest</a> by Ladislav Prošek</p> </li> <li> <p><a href="https://www.berrange.com/posts/2017/02/16/setting-up-a-nested-kvm-guest-for-developing-testing-pci-device-assignment-with-numa/">Setting up a nested KVM guest for developing &amp; testing PCI device assignment with NUMA</a> by Daniel P. Berrangé</p> </li> <li> <p><a href="https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Testing-SMM-with-QEMU,-KVM-and-libvirt">Testing SMM with QEMU, KVM and libvirt</a> by László Érsek</p> </li> <li> <p><a href="https://www.berrange.com/posts/2017/02/10/the-surprisingly-complicated-world-of-disk-image-sizes/">The surprisingly complicated world of disk image sizes</a> by Daniel P. Berrangé</p> </li> </ul> <p>More virtualization blog posts can be found on the <a href="http://planet.virt-tools.org/">virt tools planet</a>.</p> <p>In other news, QEMU is now in hard freeze for release 2.9.0. The preliminary list of features is on the <a href="http://wiki.qemu-project.org/ChangeLog/2.9">wiki</a>.</p>Paolo Bonzini

Here is a short list of articles and blog posts about QEMU and KVM, that were posted last month.

2017-02-10T05:30:00-05:002017-02-15T09:49:00-05:00/2017/02/10/fosdem-presentations<p>Over the last weekend, on February 4th and 5th, the <a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/">FOSDEM 2017</a> conference took place in Brussels.</p> <p>Some people from the QEMU community attended the <a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/virtualisation_and_iaas/">Virtualisation and IaaS track</a>, and the videos of their presentations are now available online, too:</p> <ul> <li> <p><a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/backup_dr_incr_backups/">Incremental Backups – Good things come in small packages!</a> by John Snow</p> </li> <li> <p><a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/iaas_qemintapi/">Internal APIs and conflicting world views – How abstractions inside QEMU (don’t) work together</a> by Eduardo Habkost</p> </li> <li> <p><a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/iaas_netblodev/">Network Block Device – how, what, why</a> by Wouter Verhelst</p> </li> <li> <p><a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/iaas_usinvdund/">Using NVDIMM under KVM – Applications of persistent memory in virtualization</a> by Stefan Hajnoczi</p> </li> <li> <p><a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/iaas_20yealin/">20 years of Linux Virtual Memory – From simple server workloads to cloud virtualization</a> by Andrea Arcangeli</p> </li> </ul>Thomas Huth

Over the last weekend, on February 4th and 5th, the FOSDEM 2017 conference took place in Brussels.

2017-02-04T02:40:11-05:002017-02-04T02:40:11-05:00/2017/02/04/the-new-qemu-website-is-up<p>At last, QEMU’s new website is up!</p> <p>The new site aims to be simple and provides the basic information needed to download and start contributing to QEMU. It complements the <a href="http://wiki.qemu-project.org/">wiki</a>, which remains the central point for developers to share information quickly with the rest of the community.</p> <p>We tried to test the website on most browsers and to make it lightweight and responsive. It is built using <a href="https://jekyllrb.com/">Jekyll</a> and the source code for the website can be cloned from the <a href="http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu-web.git;a=summary">qemu-web.git</a> repository. Just like for any other project hosted by QEMU, the best way to propose or contribute a new change is by sending a patch through the <a href="https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel">qemu-devel@nongnu.org</a> mailing list.</p> <p>For example, if you would like to add a new screenshot to the homepage, you can clone the <code class="highlighter-rouge">qemu-web.git</code> repository, add a PNG file to the <a href="http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu-web.git;a=tree;f=screenshots;hb=HEAD"><code class="highlighter-rouge">screenshots/</code></a> directory, and edit the <a href="http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu-web.git;a=blob;f=_data/screenshots.yml;hb=HEAD"><code class="highlighter-rouge">_data/screenshots.yml</code></a> file to include the new screenshot.</p> <p>Blog posts about QEMU are also welcome; they are simple HTML or Markdown files and are stored in the <a href="http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu-web.git;a=tree;f=_posts;hb=HEAD"><code class="highlighter-rouge">_posts/</code></a> directory of the repository.</p>Paolo Bonzini

At last, QEMU’s new website is up!