Keynote: KVM
summary
KVM development shows measurable acceleration: commit volume from 5.4–5.9 rises about 40% more commits, reviewed patches improve (reported large improvement in reviewed-by coverage), and fixes/cc stable tags grow less, suggesting higher quality. Ecosystem work includes kvm‑unit‑tests rehosted to GitLab with CI, expanding kvm selftests, and contributions from >20 companies. Architecture highlights: x86 remains largest with async page‑fault and migration optimizations, ARM drops 32‑bit host while MIPS regains a maintainer and Power/IBM add secure‑guest features.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introducción
- 0:23State of KVM (the Linux kernel part)
- 1:58Trends in KVM
- 3:42KVM Commits in each release (long term)
- 4:20Commits 5.4-rc1..5.9-rc1
- 6:15Employers
- 7:17Highlights testing
- 8:16Highlights overall
- 9:39Highlights ARM
- 11:43Highlights MIPS
- 12:10Highlights Power
- 12:34Highlights IBM Z (s390x)
- 13:17Forward looking (beyond 5.9)
- 14:06Have a great KVM Forum
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