VMware was recently acquired by Broadcom and as was widely predicted the new owners have put up VMware's prices. In some cases massively, with 10x price increases being reported.

There is a way out. You can say goodbye to VMware and take your virtual machines with you to Linux using the virt-v2v tool. Virt-v2v has been in development since 2008 and has liberated millions of virtual machines from proprietary software.

In this lightning talk, Richard Jones, one of the original developers of virt-v2v will show how it works and what it does.

RISC-V is a new instruction set architecture which, unlike Intel's x86-64 or ARM, is open source.  It is rapidly being adopted by vendors from embedded to edge to AI.  You might even have a RISC-V core or two in your PC right now.

The speakers started porting Fedora to RISC-V in 2016, and this year we expect to complete Fedora 40, 41 and CentOS Stream 10.  Join this talk for a tour of the history of Fedora on RISC-V, where we are currently, and future developments in virtualization and platform standards.