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Tuesday, October 22 • 10:30am - 11:15am
Block Layer Status Report - Stefan Hajnoczi, Red Hat & Kevin Wolf, Red Hat

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As KVM virtualization usage grows in both traditional data center and cloud scenarios, new demands are influencing the features and performance of storage devices in QEMU. This presentation covers new block layer features added to qemu-img and QEMU over the past year. It also presents current block layer development activity for those eager to test or contribute. This talk is a summary of all the work that has been completed around storage in QEMU this year, and the open issues that the community is addressing.
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Stefan Hajnoczi

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
Stefan works on open source virtualization in Red Hat's KVM team. He has contributed to QEMU since 2010 with a focus on the block layer and tracing. Stefan is a member of the QEMU Leadership Committee which represents the project with Software Freedom Conservancy. He also acts as... Read More →
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Kevin Wolf

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Kevin is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, working in the virtualisation team with a focus on block devices. He is the maintainer of QEMU's block subsystem and has contributed many patches to block device emulation and image format drivers since 2008. His current focus area... Read More →

Tuesday October 22, 2013 10:30am - 11:15am BST
Edinburgh Suite
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