Friday, November 29, 2019

Visiting the Centre for Computing History

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I visited the Centre for Computing History today in Cambridge, UK. It's home to old machines from computer science history, 80s home...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Software Freedom Conservancy donation matching is back!

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Software Freedom Conservancy is a non-profit that provides a home for Git, QEMU, Inkscape, and many other popular open source projects. ...
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Video and slides available for "virtio-fs: A Shared File System for Virtual Machines"

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This year I presented virtio-fs at KVM Forum 2019 with David Gilbert and Miklos Szeredi. virtio-fs is a host<->guest file system tha...
Monday, August 5, 2019

Determining why a Linux syscall failed

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One is often left wondering what caused an errno value when a system call fails. Figuring out the reason can be tricky beca...
Thursday, April 18, 2019

What's new in VIRTIO 1.1?

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The VIRTIO 1.1 specification has been published! This article covers the major new features in this specification. New Devices The foll...
Thursday, February 28, 2019

QEMU accepted into Google Summer of Code and Outreachy 2019

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QEMU is participating in the Google Summer of Code and Outreachy open source internship programs again this year. These 12-week, full-time,...
Friday, January 25, 2019

VIRTIO 1.1 is available for public review until Feb 21st 2019

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The VIRTIO 1.1 specification for paravirtualized I/O devices includes the new packed vring layout and the GPU, input, crypto, and socket dev...