Saturday, December 17, 2016

13 years of using Linux

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I've been using Linux on both work and personal machines for 13 years . Over time I've tried various distributions, changed the natu...
Saturday, September 17, 2016

Making I/O deterministic with blkdebug breakpoints

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Recently I was looking for a deterministic way to reproduce a QEMU bug that occurred when a guest reboots while an IDE/ATA TRIM (discard) re...
Friday, May 13, 2016

Git: Internals of how objects are stored

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Git has become the ubiquitous version control tool. A big community has grown around Git over the years. From its origins with the Linux ...
Friday, March 4, 2016

Slides available for "NFS over virtio-vsock: Host/guest file sharing for virtual machines"

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I have been working on the virtio-vsock host/guest communications mechanism and the first application is file sharing with NFS. NFS is a ma...
Wednesday, March 2, 2016

QEMU accepted into Google Summer of Code & Outreachy 2016!

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I'm delighted to announce that QEMU has been accepted into Google Summer of Code 2016 and Outreachy May-August 2016. Both GSoC and Out...
Friday, January 8, 2016

QEMU Internals: How guest physical RAM works

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Memory is one of the key aspects of emulating computer systems. Inside QEMU the guest RAM is modelled by several components that work toget...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

KVM Forum 2015 slides are available!

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KVM Forum 2015 was co-located with LinuxCon North America and Linux Plumbers Conference in Seattle, Washington. The slides and videos for ...