printk() - The Most Useful Tool is Now Showing its Age
Explore the history, functionality, and challenges of printk() in Linux kernel debugging. Learn about its critical role, growth, and current issues in modern multi-CPU systems.
Virtualizing the Central Office for Mobile Services - An Open Approach
Exploring virtualization of central offices for mobile services, showcasing collaborative open-source innovation in vRAN and vEPC implementation for efficient network configurations and service delivery.
Protected Execution Facility for Secure Virtual Machines
Explore IBM's Protected Execution Facility for enhanced security in Linux servers. Learn about secure virtual machines, architectural modifications, and protection against compromised components in cloud computing.
Extending OpenPOWER Boot Security to Guests
Explore secure boot design for KVM and PowerVM guests on OpenPOWER, addressing unique challenges and leveraging open source solutions to enhance OS boot security.
Getting Your Patches in Mainline Linux - What Not to Do and What to Try Instead
Insights on effectively submitting Linux kernel patches from a contributor-turned-maintainer. Explores common pitfalls, successful strategies, and the trust-building process between submitters and maintainers.
Unikernels and Explorations - Challenges and Opportunities
Explore unikernels' potential in cloud environments, their advantages over traditional VMs and containers, and challenges in gaining widespread adoption. Insights on optimizing unikernel platforms for performance and customization.
GPU, USB, NICs and Other Physical Devices in Containers
Explore device passthrough in containers: GPUs, USB, NICs, and more. Learn to consolidate machines, build CI platforms, and leverage LXD for VM-like environments using Linux containers.
Linux Container Internals - Deep Dive Lab
Explore the inner workings of Linux containers, including isolation mechanisms, Docker Daemon functionality, and container image creation. Gain deep technical insights for confident application of Linux knowledge to containerization.
Containers - A Look Under the Hood
Explore kernel features powering containerization: namespaces, root directories, and capabilities. Gain hands-on experience building containerized applications using standard Linux commands.
KVM-devirt - Extending KVM to a Zero-Overhead Partition Hypervisor
Explore KVM-devirt, an extension of KVM for zero-overhead server partitioning. Learn about techniques to eliminate VM exits and address translations, achieving bare-metal performance.
No More Turtles: The SecondaryVM Framework - An Alternative to Nested Virtualization
Explore an innovative alternative to nested virtualization: the SecondaryVM framework. Learn about its implementation, challenges, and potential applications in confidential computing and diverse platforms.
Scaling KVM and Its Community
Explore KVM's growth, challenges, and future prospects in cloud computing, including new ports, increased complexity, and strategies for scaling contributors and use cases.
Intel Trusted Domain Extensions (TDX) Host Kernel Support
Explore Intel's TDX Host Kernel Support: module initialization, memory management, and interactions with CPU/memory hotplug and kexec(). Learn about protecting guest VMs from malicious hosts and physical attacks.
Hot-Resizing of Windows VMs via Hyper-V Dynamic Memory Protocol
Explore hot memory resizing for Windows VMs using Hyper-V Dynamic Memory protocol, offering finer granularity and improved efficiency compared to ACPI-based PC DIMM hotplug.
The Challenges of Asynchronous Teardown of KVM Guests
Explore challenges and solutions for asynchronous teardown of large KVM guests, focusing on memory cleanup approaches, implementation issues, and potential improvements for faster VM termination.
Protected KVM on Arm64: A Technical Deep Dive
Explore pKVM, an extension of KVM/arm64 for Confidential Computing on Arm v8.0+ CPUs. Learn its architecture, implementation, and potential for shared infrastructure with other solutions.
Exploring an Architecture-neutral KVM MMU
Dive into the architecture-neutral KVM MMU, exploring its scalability improvements, performance tuning, and potential application to ARM VMs for enhanced cloud computing capabilities.
Preserving IOMMU States During Kexec Reboot for Hypervisor Live Updates
Explore techniques for preserving IOMMU states during kexec reboot, focusing on live-update challenges in hypervisors and potential software-based solutions for maintaining virtual network functionality.
Open-Source QEMU and RTL Co-simulation for SoC/FPGA Development
Explore QEMU's role in SoC/FPGA development, co-simulation techniques, and open-source tools for software and hardware integration in AMD-Xilinx's development process.
Exploring Intel Sub-Page Protection for Live VM Migration
Discover Intel's sub-page write protection feature for optimizing VM live migration, reducing network congestion, and improving efficiency in KVM and QEMU pre-copy migration algorithms.
What's New in Virtio 1.2 and Future Developments
Explore virtio 1.2's new features, devices, and future developments. Learn about its applications, upcoming proposals, and potential use cases for future versions.