Proposals

Stefan Hajnoczi

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Stefan Hajnoczi

IBM Linux Technology Center

Biography

Stefan Hajnoczi joined the IBM Linux Technology Center in 2010 where he works on QEMU/KVM and Linux virtualization. He previously worked on cross-platform virtualization at Transitive before it was acquired in 2008.

Stefan is also involved in the Etherboot Project and works on the gPXE network bootloader, which provides an open source PXE implementation and takes network booting a step further with HTTP, iSCSI, and ATA-over-Ethernet support.

Linux Plumbers Conference Microconferences

Proposals for this user

* KVM/QEMU Storage Stack Performance Discussion

An in-depth discussion of the key challenges in optimizing KVM/QEMU storage stack performance, our recent progress, and solicitation of ideas on further work in this area.
Virtualization 07/19/2010
Stefan Hajnoczi, Khoa Huynh

Linux Plumbers Conference 2010

Proposals for this user

* KVM I/O Performance on Large Storage Systems

An examination of KVM I/O performance in three large storage environments (direct-attached storage with multiple disk arrays, remote storage, and a typical storage cloud), identification of key performance issues and attributes in each of those environments, and our recent results in addressing those performance issues and optimizing I/O performance for KVM in those environments.
Refereed Presentations 07/16/2010
Khoa Huynh, Stefan Hajnoczi, Andrew Theurer

* Optimizing the QEMU/KVM Storage Stack

Tools and recent progress in improving QEMU/KVM storage performance. (slides)
Refereed Presentations 07/26/2010
Stefan Hajnoczi