KVM Forum Courses

The Challenges of Building AI Infrastructure on Virtualization

Explore challenges in AI infrastructure on virtualization, focusing on PCIe P2P communication efficiency and high-precision monitoring. Learn solutions to bridge gaps between virtualized and bare-metal environments.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Unleashing VFIO's Potential - Code Refactoring and New Frontiers in Device Virtualization

Explore VFIO advancements: code refactoring, variant drivers, enhanced migration, BAR management, and direct device access. Discover how these innovations empower unprecedented performance in virtualized environments.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

VFIO-Platform: Live and Let Die? - Evaluating the Future of Device Passthrough

Explore safe passthrough of DMA-capable platform devices using vfio-platform. Learn kernel reset modules, QEMU device tree generation, and identify integration-friendly devices.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Many Faces of Virtio-GPU: Capabilities, Implementation, and Use Cases

Explore virtio-gpu's versatility, capabilities, and implementations for graphics acceleration and compute offloading in virtualized environments. Learn to leverage its features across software stacks.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

CXL Type 2 Device Passthrough with VFIO - Enhancing Data Center Performance

Explore CXL Type 2 device passthrough using VFIO, covering architecture, requirements, and kernel changes for enhanced data center performance and efficiency.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Analyzing Nested CVM Performance on KVM/QEMU and Linux Root Partition for Hyper-V - Comparative Study

Analyze nested CVM performance on KVM/QEMU and Linux Root Partition, comparing hypervisor technologies for cloud environments. Gain insights on efficiency, scalability, and security aspects of virtualization stacks.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Coconut-SVSM - Early Attestation to Unlock Persistent State - KVM Forum

Explore early attestation for unlocking persistent state in Coconut-SVSM, enabling stateful services like vTPM and secure UEFI variable store for Confidential VM guests on AMD SEV-SNP platforms.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

SVSM and VM Privilege Level Instantiation and Execution

Explore VMPL feature in SEV-SNP for privilege separation, SVSM services, and efficient VMPL state management and switching for guest vCPUs.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Confidential Computing Story: Early Development Across the Stack - Part II

Explore early development challenges in Confidential Computing, focusing on Kata and Confidential Containers projects. Learn about building upper stacks on moving pieces and collaborative solutions.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Empowering Confidential VMs to Use Custom Firmware in Cloud Environments

Empower confidential VMs to use custom firmware, enhancing security and control. Learn a method for supplying UEFI firmware via VM disk images, enabling user-controlled updates without disrupting workloads.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Guest-Side Changes for Confidential Guests in Android - KVM Forum

Explore Android's Virtualisation Framework for confidential guests, including pKVM environment, guest kernel modifications, and real-world demonstrations on Android phones.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Confidential Computing Story: Rivers, Dams and Kernel Development - Part I

Explore the journey of confidential computing in Linux, from hardware to user availability. Learn about upstream collaboration, development challenges, and Red Hat's work in the CentOS Stream Virtualization SIG.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

COCONUT-SVSM on KVM: Progress, Plans, and Challenges

Explore COCONUT-SVSM's evolution to a paravisor layer, recent achievements, and challenges in KVM integration. Learn about proposed solutions for AMD SEV-SNP VMPLs and Intel TDX partitioning support.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Virtio and Confidential Computing - Balancing Guest Security with Hypervisor Functionality

Explore confidential computing's impact on virtio and paravirtualization. Learn about new features, hardening efforts, and open issues in improving guest-hypervisor trust relationships.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

QEMU Live Migration Device State Transfer Parallelization via Multifd Channels

Parallelize QEMU live migration device state transfer using multifd channels to improve performance and reduce downtime for VMs with large device states.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video