QEMU and KVM

Joseph Lennon’s Presentation from January 10th, 2018

Slides for the presentation can be found here.

Improve your VM’ performance by leveraging common hardware
virtualization extensions and native Linux kernel modules. The
combination of Quick Emulator and Kernel-based Virtual Machines offers
a free, open source, highly-configurable, and scalable platform to
deploy systems ranging from small personal file servers to enterprise
grade compute clusters.

We’ll explore general deployment of VMs within QEMU/KVM, as well as
exploiting hardware acceleration via PCIe device passthrough to reach
virtualized, bare-metal performance