Upstream conferences and talks

A list of technical talks (and a few contributor panel discussions) that gave at various conferences — Open Source Summit, KVM Forum, FOSDEM, OpenStack Summit, and others. (I also help co-organize the Virt and Infrastructure "developer" room at FOSDEM for several years.)

• 2025, RISC-V Summit, Paris

  Presented Fedora's RISC-V porting status as a technical poster session [PDF].

  A 2-page extended abstract [PDF]

• 2024, KVM Forum, Brno

  Participated in technical BoF sessions.

• 2022, KVM Forum, Dublin

  Moderated a contributor panel discussion. Panelists are from Google, Arm, Intel, and Red Hat. (Video: 2022)

• 2020, Red Hat Tech Day, Brussels

  Talk [PDF]: Secure CPU configuration for KVM-based guests

• 2019, KVM Forum, Lyon

  Moderated a contributor panel discussion. Panelists are from Red Hat, Amazon, Oracle, and Google. (Video: 2019)

• 2018, OpenStack Summit, Berlin

  Talk [PDF]: Effective Virtual CPU Configuration in Nova.

• 2018, Open Source Summit & KVM Forum, Edinburgh

  Talk [PDF]: Effective Virtual CPU Configuration with QEMU and libvirt.

  Organized a contributor panel at KVM Forum.

• 2017, KVM Forum, Prague

  Participated in technical BoF sessions.

• 2017, FOSDEM, Brussels

  Co-organized the Virt & IaaS DevRoom.

  Talk: Live Block Device Operations in QEMU

• 2016, Open Source Summit & KVM Forum, Toronto

  Talk [PDF]: A Practical Look at QEMU’s Block Layer Primitives

  Organized a technical contributor panel discussion.

• 2015, OpenStack Summit, Tokyo

  Talk [PDF]: Debugging the Virtualization Layer (libvirt and QEMU) in OpenStack.

  (Also presented this at DevConf 2016.)

• 2015, Open Source Summit, Dublin

  Talk: "Debugging the virtualization layer in OpenStack". Similar to the Tokyo presentation.

• 2015, Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit & KVM Forum, Seattle

  Participated in technical BoF sessions and meeting the broader virtualization community.

• 2015; Infrastructure Summit, Ghent

  Talk [PDF]: Advanced snapshots with libvirt and QEMU.

• 2014, LinuxCon & KVM Forum, Düsseldorf

  Talk [PDF]: An Update (and Demo) on Techniques to Manage libvirt/QEMU-based Virtual Machine Snapshots and Disk Image Chains.

• 2013, LinuxCon & KVM Forum, Edinburgh

  Talk [PDF]: Notes on Nested Virtualization (KVM on KVM)

  Participated in technical BoF sessions at the KVM Forum

• 2012; LinuxCon & KVM Forum, Barcelona

  Talk [PDF]: Virtual machine snapshots—overview and illustration of different types of snapshots with libvirt and QEMU

• 2012, FOSDEM, Brussels

  A talk on Red Hat Certificate System (a PKI-based project). Slides and demo