KVM Forum Courses

Zero-Trust vTPM for AMD SEV-SNP Confidential Virtual Machines

Explore a Zero-Trust vTPM for AMD SEV-SNP Confidential VMs, enabling secure measurements and attestation without relying on cloud service providers. Learn about its implementation and benefits for data protection.

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

Chains of Trust in Confidential Computing

Explore chains of trust in Confidential Computing, including attestation techniques for VMs, containers, and clusters. Learn about roots of trust, verification processes, and key technologies.

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

Automatic Promotion of Helper Functions to TCG Using LLVM

Explore automatic translation of C helper functions to optimized Tiny Code Generators for QEMU using LLVM. Learn about performance improvements and see an interactive demo of C to TCG mappings.

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

Kata Containers - State of the Union

Explore Kata Containers' latest developments, including runtime-rs, confidential computing advancements, and upcoming release plans.

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

Exploring VM Placement Strategies for Chiplet Architectures

Discover advanced VM scheduling techniques for chiplet-based processors, optimizing placement strategies to minimize inter-chiplet communication penalties and maximize performance.

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

Physical Memory Allocation Constraints for Confidential Computing Guests

Explore physical memory allocation challenges for confidential computing on arm64 mobile platforms and proposed solutions for hardware constraints.

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

Single-Binary - Unify QEMU System Binaries per Target Architecture

Discover how QEMU's single-binary approach unifies multiple target architectures into one executable, overcoming barriers in heterogeneous system emulation through innovative design.

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

IOMMU in Rust-VMM and New FUSE+VDUSE Use Cases

Explore IOMMU integration in rust-vmm ecosystem and discover innovative FUSE+VDUSE use cases for exposing vhost-user devices and FUSE filesystems to containers and VMs.

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

Towards New Migration Protocol with Unified Channels

Explore QEMU live migration challenges and discover a unified protocol approach to simplify VM migration between hosts while addressing current limitations.

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

RISC-V pKVM - Protected KVM for Confidential Virtual Machines

Explore RISC-V pKVM implementation for confidential virtual machines, covering initialization, binary interfaces, code reuse strategies, and upcoming ISA extensions in this technical deep dive.

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

Rust-VMM - Updates, Adoption, and Future Directions

Discover rust-vmm's evolution, integration with Firecracker and Cloud Hypervisor, RISC-V support, monorepo plans, and virtio/vhost-user device capabilities for VMM development.

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

Automatic Frontend Generation for RISC-V Extensions

Discover how to rapidly implement and test RISC-V extensions in QEMU using automated tools, generating TCG implementations and comprehensive test suites for efficient ISA development.

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

Supporting SEV Firmware Hotload in KVM

Discover how to implement dynamic SEV firmware updates in KVM while SNP guests run, covering rollback capabilities, attestation impacts, and new feature identification.

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

Rust in QEMU - Strengths and Challenges

Explore Rust integration in QEMU 9.2.0, covering memory safety challenges, API interactions, device onboarding steps, and ecosystem practices for system virtualization development.

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

Improving Windows Hypervisor-Protected Code Integrity (HVCI) Performance on KVM

Discover how to enhance Windows HVCI performance on KVM through Intel MBEC and AMD GMET hardware acceleration, addressing critical virtualization challenges.

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