[$] A recap of KVM Forum 2019 The 13th
KVM
Forum virtualization conference took place in Lyon, France in October
2019. One might think that development may have finished on the Kernel
Virtual Machine (KVM) module that was merged in Linux 2.6.20 in 2007, but
this year's conference underscored the amount of work still being done,
particularly on side-channel attack mitigation, I/O device assignment with
VFIO and mdev, footprint reduction with micro virtual machines (VMs), and
with the ability to
run VMs nested within VMs. Many talks also involved the virtual machine
monitor (VMM) user-space programs that use the KVM kernel module—of which
QEMU is the most widely used.