KVM Forum 2011 | Call For Participation

August 15-16, 2011 - Hyatt Regency Vancouver - Vancouver, Canada

All submissions must be received before midnight May 16th, 2011

KVM is an industry leading open source hypervisor that provides an ideal platform for datacenter virtualization, virtual desktop infrastructure, and cloud computing. Once again, it's time to bring together the community of developers and users that define the KVM ecosystem for our annual technical conference. We will discuss the current state of affairs and plan for the future of KVM, its surrounding infrastructure, and management tools. So mark your calendar and join us in advancing KVM.

We invite you to lead part of the discussion by submitting a speaking proposal for KVM Forum 2011.

Submit your proposal here: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/cfp

Suggested topics:

KVM

• Scaling and performance
• Nested virtualization
• I/O improvements
• PCI device assignment
• Driver domains
• Time keeping
• Resource management (cpu, memory, i/o)
• Memory management (page sharing, swapping, huge pages, etc)
• Fault tolerance
• VEPA, VN-Link, vswitch
• Security

QEMU

• Device model improvements
• New devices
• Scaling and performance
• Desktop virtualization
• Spice
• Increasing robustness and hardening
• Security model
• Management interfaces
• QMP protocol and implementation
• Image formats
• Live migration
• Live snapshots and merging

Virtio

• Speeding up existing devices
• Alternatives
• Virtio on non-Linux

Management infrastructure

• Libvirt
• KVM autotest
• OpenStack
• Network virtualization management
• Enterprise storage management

Cloud Computing

• Scalable storage
• Virtual networking
• Security
• Provisioning
• Hybrid

Submission Requirements

Abstracts Due: May 16th, 2011
Notification: May 31th, 2011

Please submit a short abstract (~150 words) describing your presentation proposal. In your submission please note how long your talk will take. Slots vary in length up to 45 minutes. Also include in your proposal the proposal type -- one of:

• technical talk
• end-user talk
• BOF (birds of a feather) session

Submit your proposal here: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/cfp

You will receive a notification whether or not your presentation proposal was accepted by May 31st.

End-User Collaboration

One of the big challenges as developers is to know what, where and how people actually use our software. We will reserve a few slots for end users talking about their deployment challenges and achievements.

If you are using KVM in production you are encouraged submit a speaking proposal. Simply mark it as an end-user collaboration proposal. As and end user, this is a unique opportunity to get your input to developers.

BoF Session

We will reserve some slots in the evening after the main conference tracks, for birds of a feather sessions. These sessions will be less formal than presentation tracks and targetted for people who would like to discuss specific issues with other developers and/or users. If you are interested in getting developers and/or uses together to discuss a specific problem, please submit a BOF proposal.

Lightning Talks

In addition to submitted talks we will also have some room for lightning talks. So if you have something you think might be done until the KVM Forum, but you're not sure you could fill 15 minutes with it. Or if you don't know if you'll make it until there, just keep in mind that you will still get the chance to talk about it. Lightning talk submissions and scheduling will be handled on-site at KVM Forum.