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Thursday, September 16 • 15:35 - 16:00
libvfio-user: Status Update - Thanos Makatos & John Levon, Nutanix

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vfio-user is a device offloading protocol that allows a device to be virtualized outside the VMM, originally presented as MUSER at the KVM forum in 2019. In this presentation, we will provide a status update of libvfio-user, a library that simplifies the implementation of virtual devices that operate under the vfio-user protocol, hiding the details of the protocol implementation. libvfio-user is VMM-agnostic but is built with QEMU as its primary use case. We will provide a very brief overview of the vfio-user protocol and dive into libvfio-user’s implementation, its API, future work, and also perform a live demo of a libvfio-user device.
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Thanos Makatos

Senior Member of Technical Staff, Nutanix
I'm a software engineer at Nutanix working on storage virtualization. I'm currently working on the vfio-user protocol and libvfio-user, which allows us to use SPDK as a virtual NVMe controller outside QEMU in order to achieve high performance, low latency, and higher CPU efficien... Read More →
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John Levon

Staff Engineer, Nutanix
Software engineer at Nutanix, working on virtualized storage.

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