VirtIO without the Virt - Towards Implementations in Hardware - Michael Tsirkin, Red Hat
VirtIO was designed to standardize hypervisor interfaces for virtual machines - but we are beginning to see the emergence of Virtio hardware. This talk will answer the questions: why does this make se …
| Talk Title | VirtIO without the Virt - Towards Implementations in Hardware - Michael Tsirkin, Red Hat |
| Speakers | Michael S. Tsirkin (Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat) |
| Conference | Open Source Summit + ELC Europe |
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| Location | Lyon, France |
| Date | Oct 27-Nov 1, 2019 |
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VirtIO was designed to standardize hypervisor interfaces for virtual machines - but we are beginning to see the emergence of Virtio hardware. This talk will answer the questions: why does this make sense, what works and what are the issues hardware implementations of virtio have to overcome?Topics to be covered:- What is the difference between hardware virtio devices and virtio data path accelerators?- What are the minimal requirements of virtio in hardware?- How can we handle compatibility, including hardware bugs and limitations?- How to make live migration work? What about overcommit?- Which changes included in the recent virtio specification help design hardware virtio devices?- Which known issues remain and how does the Virtio committee plat to address them?- Why design Virtio in hardware? Are there alternatives?- Why get involved with the Virtio specification process?
