KVM Forum Courses

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
• Self-Paced
• 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
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Windows on Arm on QEMU/KVM - Challenges and Solutions

Discover the technical challenges and solutions for running Windows on Arm virtualization using QEMU/KVM, including PMU emulation, graphics drivers, and system reliability improvements.

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

Shadow ioeventfd - Accelerating MMIO in vfio-user with Kernel-Assisted Dispatch

Discover how shadow ioeventfd accelerates MMIO operations in vfio-user through kernel-assisted dispatch, reducing context switches and improving performance by up to 200%.

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

Optimizing vPMU on ARM

Discover how to optimize ARM vPMU implementation by reducing overhead through selective untrapping of PMU registers, leveraging PMUv3 and FGT features for direct hardware access.

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

The Next Generation QEMU Functional Testing Framework

Discover how QEMU's functional tests were completely rewritten, transitioning from Avocado to meson test runner with lightweight libraries for improved testing efficiency.

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

Upstreaming NVIDIA vGPU Support - Architecture, Implementation, and Roadmap

Discover NVIDIA vGPU upstream architecture using SR-IOV and VFIO framework for virtualized GPU environments, covering implementation details and community roadmap.

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

The State of QEMU WebAssembly Port

Discover QEMU's WebAssembly port enabling browser-based system emulation, covering implementation details, current 32-bit TCI support, and future plans for 64-bit guests and TCG backend.

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

Virtio 2025 State of the Union

Discover the latest developments in virtio technology, including new devices, drivers, and specification updates, plus insights into future roadmap for 2026 and beyond.

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

guest_memfd for Non-Confidential VMs and Spectre Protection

Explore guest_memfd's application beyond confidential computing to harden traditional VMs against Spectre-style attacks and enhance security in non-confidential environments.

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

Attesting Confidential Devices and Provisioning Secure Workload Identities with Trustee

Discover Trustee's latest developments in confidential computing: attestation for CVMs with devices like NVIDIA H100 and secure identity provisioning for confidential guests.

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

Virtual Secure Boot in 2025 - The Confidential Computing Edition

Explore virtual secure boot evolution for confidential computing, covering SEV-ES, SEV-SNP, TDX challenges and solutions across x86, aarch64, and riscv64 platforms without SMM emulation.

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

NVIDIA vGPU Support on Grace Blackwell Superchip - Architecture, Design, Upstreaming Status

Explore NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Superchip's vGPU architecture, unified memory design, and virtualization capabilities for high-performance datacenter applications.

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

Hexagon System Emulation

Discover Hexagon DSP system emulation in QEMU, covering energy-efficient computation, Snapdragon SoC integration, and booting Hexagon QuRT/Linux with unique architectural challenges.

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

Making io_uring Pervasive in QEMU

Explore io_uring integration in QEMU, covering asynchronous I/O optimization, new APIs, event loop enhancements, and performance improvements for Linux kernel features.

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