KVM Courses and Certifications

KVM Forum

KVM Status Update 2024

Explore KVM's latest advancements and upstream contributions in this concise overview of the past year's developments.

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

vBrownBag

vJailbreak: Automated Migration from ESXi to KVM

Discover vJailbreak, an open-source tool that automates virtual machine migration from VMware ESXi to KVM, presented by Robby Stahl from Platform9 who explains its functionality and shares customer success stories.

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

Linux Plumbers Conference

SYZOS - Practical KVM Fuzzing

Discover SYZOS, a novel framework for effective KVM fuzzing that overcomes traditional challenges by fuzzing high-level guest operations instead of raw instructions.

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

CloudFest

The Leap of Faith Required to Move From VMware to KVM - and How to Make it Less Frightening

Discover best practices for migrating from VMware to Linux KVM, reducing costs while maintaining VM capabilities through open source cloud management platforms.

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

Linux KVM for System and cloud Engineers

192 ratings at Udemy

Learn KVM Installation, Configuration and Administration on CentOS and RHEL

• Udemy
• 3 hours 35 minutes
• On-Demand
• Paid Course

Oracle

Oracle Linux Virtualization - Containers and KVM Management

Master Oracle Linux virtualization through comprehensive KVM and Podman container management, from basic setup to advanced networking and storage configurations.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 43 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Towards an Alternative Memory Architecture

Explore alternative memory architectures for hypervisors, focusing on pageless/secret memory in KVM, Device DAX interface, and security improvements for enhanced performance and protection.

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

KVM Forum

Multiqueue in the Block Layer: Challenges and Solutions for Thread Safety in QEMU

Explore challenges and solutions for making QEMU's block layer thread-safe, enabling true parallel processing of multiple I/O queues for improved performance.

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

KVM Forum

Challenges Revisited in Supporting Virtual CPU Hotplug on Non-Supporting Architectures

Explore virtual CPU hotplug challenges and solutions for architectures lacking physical CPU hotplug support. Gain insights into progress, requirements, and future developments in cloud virtualization.

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

KVM Forum

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

KVM Forum

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

KVM Forum

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
• On-Demand
• Free Video

KVM Forum

Parallel vCPU Onlining for ARM64

Explore parallel CPU onlining implementation for arm64 architecture, covering CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL enablement and its potential to accelerate vCPU onlining under KVM.

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

KVM Forum

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
• On-Demand
• Free Video

KVM Forum

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
• On-Demand
• Free Video