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Alex Bennée

Virtualisation and E...
Linaro
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Long time systems and embedded developer with a side of Dynamic Binary Translation. Alex started learning to program in the 80s in an era of classic home computers that allowed you to get down and dirty at the system level. After graduating with a degree in Chemistry he's worked on a variety of projects including Fruit Machines, Line Cards, CCTV recorders and point-to-multipoint wireless microwave systems. Since the turn of the century his primary focus has been working with FLOSS platforms, especially Linux. An alumni of Transitive he has a broad experience of cross-platform virtualization as well as a strong background in telecommunications and networking. A keen Emacs user he will happily answer questions and proselytise for the One True Editor (tm).

Talks

MAD24-406 Orko where are we now - lessons from enabling VirtIO media devices

Session

Virtualization

  • Friday, 17 May 10:20 - 10:45
  • Room: Keynote | Zaragoza III+IV

Project Orko is a Linaro project that has been working on enabling VirtIO for complex edge devices across multiple hypervisors. In the last year we've been looking at enabling multi-media devices including sound and graphics. In this talk we shall look at some of the challenges we have encountered and the extra demands multi-media devices make of the VirtIO stack. We shall go into details about how the Friday demo was put together and what is still left to do and in what part VirtIO can play in glueing together complex edge systems.

Project Orko: VirtIO on Xen

Demo

Other

We are demonstrating virtio-gpu running on a Xen hypervisor using an AMD GPU and the Ampere AVA development platform.