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Thursday, September 16 • 14:35 - 15:00
Live Migrating VFIO, vhost-user, and vfio-user Devices - Stefan Hajnoczi, Red Hat

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While devices built into QEMU largely support live migration, this is not the case for many VFIO, vhost-user, and vfio-user devices. Questions remain about how to design interfaces for migration of these devices. This talk covers the current state and possible solutions for the missing pieces. We will explore the requirements for migrating devices and the capabilities of existing interfaces including VFIO_REGION_SUBTYPE_MIGRATION, D-Bus vmstate, and stateless vhost-user device migration. Migration must do more than just serialize and deserialize device state, it must ensure the compatibility of saved states and the guest-visible hardware interface. This talk answers two key questions about device migration: 1. Is it possible to determine if a migration destination is compatible beforehand without running a full migration? 2. Is migrating between different implementations of the same device possible in practice? A demonstration of migration with Multi-Process QEMU will show the concepts in action.
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Stefan Hajnoczi

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Stefan works on QEMU and Linux in Red Hat's Virtualization team with a focus on storage, VIRTIO, and tracing. Recent projects include libblkio, virtiofs, storage performance optimization for NVMe drives, and out-of-process device emulation. Stefan has been active in the QEMU community... Read More →

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Thursday September 16, 2021 14:35 - 15:00 UTC
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